Re: .psqlrc output for \pset commands

Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>

From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2008-06-12T00:23:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"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.

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