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Re: Psql meta-command conninfo+

Sami Imseih <simseih@amazon.com>

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From: "Imseih (AWS), Sami" <simseih@amazon.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Maiquel Grassi <grassi@hotmail.com.br>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>, Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru>, "Erik Wienhold" <ewie@ewie.name>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-04-01T17:45:10Z
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> That minor point aside, I disagree with Sami about repeating the docs
> for system_user() here. I would just say "The authentication data
> provided for this connection; see the function system_user() for more
> details." 

+1. FWIW; Up the thread [1], I did mention we should link to the functions page,
but did not have a very strong opinion on that. 

I do like your suggestion and the same should be done for "Current User" 
and "Session User" as well. 

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/640B2586-EECF-44C0-B474-CA8510F8EAFC%40amazon.com

Regards,

Sami

Commits

  1. psql: Change new \conninfo to use SSL instead of TLS

  2. Change \conninfo to use tabular format

  3. Update extension lookup routines to use the syscache

  4. Improve COPY TO performance when server and client encodings match

  5. doc: Remove superfluous bracket in synopsis

  6. Remove psql support for server versions preceding 9.2.