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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
Cc: Asad Ali <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Customize psql prompt to show current_role
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:36:47 -0400
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Adrian Klaver <[email protected]> writes:
> On 9/23/24 08:07, Dominique Devienne wrote:
>> I often resort to \conninfo, but it's less automatic and
>> harder to visually parse (IMHO) compared to a custom ad-hoc prompt.

> For me that shows the user that connected(session_user) not the 
> current_user.

Worse than that: what it reports is libpq's PQuser(), that is the
name that was used to log in with.  But if what you want is the
session_user, psql prompts already have %n for that.

			regards, tom lane






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