On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 10:03:54AM +0200, Jim Jones wrote: > I believe that 'read/write' is more idiomatic than 'read-write' in this > context. 'Read-only' works as a hyphenated adjective, and 'read/write' > is typically treated as a paired label that indicates two distinct > capabilities --- read and write. What do you think?
My first thought when looking at this thread/patch was that something like "read-write" might be a bit long for a psql prompt. I probably would've chosen something like "r" or "ro" for read-only and "rw" for read-write. I suppose you could argue that those are more difficult to see, and this seems particularly useful when you want to be sure that you won't inadvertently write any data. -- nathan
