Re: Proposal: %T Prompt parameter for psql for current time (like Oracle has)

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kirk Wolak <wolakk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrey Borodin <amborodin86(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: Proposal: %T Prompt parameter for psql for current time (like Oracle has)
Date: 2023-02-23 18:45:13
Message-ID: CAFj8pRCR89CWCyG7GHB4PE_m8ZHVDtH0=Ey0-Spzsp7hnCYK3w@mail.gmail.com
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čt 23. 2. 2023 v 19:16 odesílatel Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com>
napsal:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 09:55 Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 9:05 AM Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think Heikki's solution is probably more practical since (1) ..
>>
>>
>> Note that these ideas target two *different* problems:
>> - what was the duration of the last query
>> - when was the last query executed
>>
>> So, having both solved would be ideal.
>>
>
> Fair point, but since the duration solution needs to capture two
> timestamps anyway, it could print start time as well as duration.
>
> The prompt timestamp could still be handy for more intricate session
> forensics, but I don't know if that's a common-enough use case.
>

It is hard to say what is a common enough case, but I cannot imagine more
things than this.

small notice - bash has special support for this

Regards

Pavel

> Thanks,
> Maciek
>
>>

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