On 9/23/24 08:07, Dominique Devienne wrote:
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 4:55 PM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
To get the current role, psql would have to query the database whenever
it displays the prompt. That would be rather expensive...
See previous discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFj8pRBFU-WzzQhNrwRHn67N0Ug8a9-0-9BOo69PPtcHiBDQMA%40mail.gmail.com
At the time I didn't like the idea too much, but now that we've seen
a second independent request, maybe our opinion of its value should
go up a notch.
Thanks for the reference Tom. I don't follow -hackers, so missed it.
Obviously I disagree with your "it's not useful enough" comment :)
I often lose track of which ROLE is active, in my many
long-lived psql sessions, on various servers (mainly v14 and v16 these days),
especially during my recent struggle to adapt our system to v16.
I often resort to \conninfo, but it's less automatic and
harder to visually parse (IMHO) compared to a custom ad-hoc prompt.
For me that shows the user that connected(session_user) not the
current_user.
Therefore I want to respectfully re-iterate my interest in this enhancement.
Thanks, --DD
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