On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:08 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
2010/1/27 David Christensen <da...@endpoint.com>:
On Jan 27, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
2010/1/27 Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com>:
On 1/26/10 3:24 PM, David Christensen wrote:
-hackers,
In the spirit of small, but hopefully useful interface improvement
patches, enclosed for your review is a patch for providing psql
with a
\whoami command (maybe a better name is \conninfo or similar).
Its
purpose is to print information about the current connection, by
default
in a human-readable format. There is also an optional format
parameter
which currently accepts 'dsn' as an option to output the current
connection information as a DSN.
On a first note, it seems like the check for the parameter "dsn"
isn't
"complete". Without testing it, it looks like it would be possible
to
run "\whoami foobar", which should give an error.
Yeah, I debated that; right now, it just ignores any output it
doesn't know about and spits out the human-readable format.
yeah, that's not very forwards-compatible. Someone uses it in the
wrong way, and suddenly their stuff gets broken if we choose to modify
it in the future. If we say we're only going ot accept two options,
let's enforce that and show an error/help message if the user typos.
That's a good point about forward-compatibility. In that case, I'm
not sure if "default" is the best name for the human-readable format,
but I didn't like "human-readable" ;-). I assume that should have an
explicit spelling, and not just be the format that we get if we don't
otherwise specify. Ideas, anyone?
Regards,
David
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David Christensen
End Point Corporation
da...@endpoint.com
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