Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6
Date: 2008-05-15 17:20:53
Message-ID: 482C70F5.1040800@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Welcome to UI development. There is always *far* more argument of minor
>> matters of appearance than over anything else, in my experience.
>
> Which is a good thing (in this case at least), because otherwise we
> would end up with a crappy UI just because a single person thinks it's
> "good enough".

This makes me think we shouldn't be hard-coding anything at all
as the welcome message; but rather having a default .psqlrc
in much the same way that that there's a default /etc/bash.bashrc
and /etc/csh.login.

Within that default .psqlrc we can put
\qecho "Whatever the default message is"
or
select "my message "+version();
to create the default, but then anyone with their own .psqlrc
can re-define it to whatever they think is a "good enough" UI.

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