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To: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
To: 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 15:05:10 +0200
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On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 14:59 +0200, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 2:51 PM Erik Wienhold <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You could instead use this:
> >
> > SELECT current_role \gset
> > \set PROMPT1 '%n@%/ (%:current_role:)=%# '
> >
> > But that won't work with subsequent SET ROLE commands.
>
> Bummer... That was kinda the point, that it updates automatically.
>
> Then I'd like to respectfully request a small enhancement to psql
> to support a new \r (or some other letter) for current_role in the prompt.
To get the current role, psql would have to query the database whenever
it displays the prompt. That would be rather expensive...
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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