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Invisible PROMPT2

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

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From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-11-13T03:14:44Z
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Hello hackers,

From the advanced bikeshedding department: I'd like my psql
transcripts to have the usual alignment, but be easier to copy and
paste later without having weird prompt stuff in the middle.  How
about a prompt format directive %w that means "whitespace of the same
width as %/"?  Then you can make set your PROMPT2 to '%w   ' and it
becomes invisible:

pgdu=# create table foo (
         i int,
         j int
       );
CREATE TABLE
pgdu=#

Commits

  1. psql: Fix %w length in PROMPT2 when PROMPT1 contains a newline.

  2. Allow invisible PROMPT2 in psql.