Re: .psqlrc output for \pset commands

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2008-07-17T00:44:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> 
> > In my .psqlrc I have:
> >
> > 	\pset format wrapped
> >
> > and this outputs this on psql startup:
> >
> > 	$ psql test
> > -->	Output format is wrapped.
> > 	psql (8.4devel)
> > 	Type "help" for help.
> >
> > Is this desirable?  \set QUIET at the top of .psqlrc fixes it, but I am
> > wondering if we should be automatically doing quiet while .psqlrc is
> > processed.
> 
> I was wondering about this myself, but I'm still not used to the new banner.
> It seems kind of... curt. Perhaps it should just be a single line instead of
> two lines both around 20 characters...
> 
> Anyways the thing that struck me as odd was the messages appearing *before*
> the header. It seems to me the header should print followed by .psqlrc output
> followed by normal output.

Do you like this better?

	$ psql test
	psql (8.4devel)
	Type "help" for help.
	Output format is wrapped.
	
	test=>

The attached patch accomplishes this.

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