Hi Nathan On 23/10/2025 23:02, Nathan Bossart wrote: > 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.
I can see the appeal of keeping the indicator as short as possible in a prompt, but that can also make it a bit harder to quickly distinguish between the read/write and read-only states. In this case, clarity might be more important than compactness. Then again, the traditional shell prompt symbols ($, #) aren't exactly self-explanatory either, and people seem fine with those :) Although I prefer it being explicit in this case, I can live with either approach. Do you think we should go for "ro" or "rw"? Thanks for the review! Best, Jim
