Re: display hot standby state in psql prompt

From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
To: Jim Jones <jim(dot)jones(at)uni-muenster(dot)de>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: display hot standby state in psql prompt
Date: 2025-11-08 08:57:13
Message-ID: ff77cec2-1358-4adb-ae04-ba6fa8a7f734@proxel.se
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On 10/31/25 10:00 PM, Jim Jones wrote:
> Thoughts on this approach?

I am not a fan at all of introducing running a query when calculating
the prompt. Imagine if there are network issues or otherwise and in
general I imagine that the prompt can send a query would be highly
surprising to most users.

I personally lean towards that maybe we should keep it simple and go
back to the origins of the patch which just tried to show if it is a
standby or not given how complex it is to tell that we are in read-only
or not. The alternative would be to update the protocol so the client if
informed if a transaction is read-only or not but I do not think it
would be possible to convince people to update the protocol just for
psql. Maybe if some connection pooler would also be interest but I am
not sure what they would need this for.

Andreas

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