Peter Eisentraut wrote: > What do people think about adding the transaction status indicator to the > default psql prompt, so it'd look something like this: > > peter=# begin; > BEGIN > peter*=# foo; > ERROR: syntax error at or near "foo" at character 1 > peter!=# rollback; > ROLLBACK > peter=# > > I think many people would find that useful. > > Btw., would anyone mind if the code for this indicator where not %T, but > say instead %x, because there is a correspondence between psql's codes and > tcsh's, and tcsh uses %T for the hour of the day, which is something that > someone might want to add someday.
If you take a close look at the output above, you will see that the prompt shifts one character to the right when you are in a transaction. That is going to look terrible. I don't think we should have a moving prompt as a default. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
