Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 8/11/16 6:04 AM, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
>> Suggested patch introduces an %r substitution in psql's prompt. This
>> substitution allows to display whether user is connected to master or
>> replica right in a prompt.
> In the near future, there will (probably) be a lot more variants about
> what it means to be a master or a replica. There will be logical
> replication, where you could be a publisher of something and a consumer
> of something else. You could even be a logical consumer but a physical
> master. So a global binary facility is probably not very forward
> looking and will lead to confusion.
Also, the patch as given is broken since it fails to account for the
server being promoted while a psql session is open.
regards, tom lane
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