Re: Patch: psql \whoami option

On 1/26/10 3:24 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> -hackers,
>
> In the spirit of small, but hopefully useful interface improvement
> patches, enclosed for your review is a patch for providing psql with a
> \whoami command (maybe a better name is \conninfo or similar). Its
> purpose is to print information about the current connection, by default
> in a human-readable format. There is also an optional format parameter
> which currently accepts 'dsn' as an option to output the current
> connection information as a DSN.

oooh, I could really use this. +1 to put it in 9.1-first CF.

however, \conninfo is probably the better name. And what about a
postgresql function version for non-psql connections?

--Josh Berkus