On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 14:59 +0200, Dominique Devienne wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 2:51 PM Erik Wienhold <e...@ewie.name> 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
