Hi,

Le 17 juil. 09 à 23:24, Tom Lane a écrit :
It seems unlikely that the DB version number would be worth the prompt
space. In situations like that you'd much more likely need identifying
info like the DB hostname and port number.

At work we have a fair number of database servers, some 8.2, lots of 8.3, and still some 8.1 I think. Triple the count for dev and preprod environments. Of course as the DBA I tend not to forget easily which server runs which version, and anyway when unsure I read the psql banner.

But developers too will connect to those servers, and in the same project they can handle both 8.2 and 8.3 databases. And they already struggle to think about connecting with the right psql client version. I'm often called for a "\d is broken, see?".

All of this to say "from the field" how much I think this could help us to have a rich prompt with database name and major version. Oh and they could refer to the right documentation, too, before asking me about why it doesn't work as intended...

Regards,
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