Ron Mayer wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > >> Welcome to UI development. There is always *far* more argument of minor > >> matters of appearance than over anything else, in my experience. > > > > Which is a good thing (in this case at least), because otherwise we > > would end up with a crappy UI just because a single person thinks it's > > "good enough". > > > This makes me think we shouldn't be hard-coding anything at all > as the welcome message; but rather having a default .psqlrc > in much the same way that that there's a default /etc/bash.bashrc > and /etc/csh.login. > > Within that default .psqlrc we can put > \qecho "Whatever the default message is" > or > select "my message "+version(); > to create the default, but then anyone with their own .psqlrc > can re-define it to whatever they think is a "good enough" UI.
We could do that but we still have to design the default banner. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches
