Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 4:04 PM Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm not really a fan of this. Right now my prompt looks like this: >> robert.haas=# >> If we did this, it would say: >> robert.h...@robert.haas=#
There would be similar duplication for, eg, the postgres user connected to the postgres database. However, I'm more worried about the case where they don't match, because then the %~ suggestion doesn't help shorten it. > Of course, people can put this in their .psqlrc, and I do. The suggestion > came about because I had a couple of instances where people using the > default prompt showed me stuff and the problem arose from confusion about > which user they were connected as. On the whole, I think we'd get more complaints about the default prompt having more-or-less doubled in length than we'd get kudos about this being a great usability improvement. Prompt space is expensive and precious, at least for people who aren't in the habit of working in very wide windows. regards, tom lane