Re: Feature: psql - display current search_path in prompt

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 06:57:37PM +0300, Florents Tselai wrote:
> > Absent any other feedback I'm marking this as Ready for Committer;
> > Said committer can push back on my arbitrary %S selection
> > https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5808/
>
> PQparameterStatus() will return NULL if the parameter is not known. So,
> with this patch, using %S in a prompt when connected to a <v18 version of
> PostgreSQL will produce an empty string. Given an empty string is a valid
> value for search_path, I think we probably want to use a special value in
> this case. Perhaps we could use "?", which is much less likely to be a
> value for search_path.
>

Good catch. v2 attached