Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2019-Jun-14, Tom Lane wrote: >> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >>> P.S. I think the fact that we print "psql: " before the ERROR here is >>> useless clutter. We didn't do that in v11 and prior and I think we >>> should kill it with fire.
>> Agreed, particularly seeing that the error is not originating with >> psql; it's just passing it on. > +1 > Proposal: each program declares at startup whether it wants the program > name prefix or not. Well, to clarify: I think it's reasonable to include "psql: " if the message is originating in psql. So I don't think your idea quite does what we want. regards, tom lane