Re: get rid of psql welcome message

Tom Lane wrote:
> Yes. Which was part of the discussion:
>
> ... a rejected part of the discussion, according to Peter's conclusion.

Obviously not to others.

>
> It certainly doesn't make very much sense to do it in combination with
> this patch, since if the standard help text is cut to one line who's
> going to bother with "terse" mode? And the "none" mode isn't much of a
> feature by itself either; people who want that will most likely want -q
> mode even more.

Peter's patch is certainly useful but this is something quite different
but affecting some of the same behavior. My idea is all about the 99% of
people that don't use a .psqlrc. Should we not provide a simpler
interface that provides succinct and need to know information just
because we added a feature to .psqlrc?

That seems odd.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake