On 2020-Feb-03, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > > On 3 Feb 2020, at 08:08, Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > > > FWIW, I am not really in favor of changing a default old enough that > > it could vote (a45195a). > > That by itself doesn't seem a good reason to not change things.
Yeah. > My concern would be that users who have never ever considered that the prompt > can be changed, all of sudden wonder why the prompt is showing characters it > normally isn't, thus causing confusion. That being said, I agree that this is > a better default long-term. I think this is the good kind of surprise, not the bad kind. I think the only kind of user that would be negatively affected would be those that have scripted psql under expect(1) and would fail to read the new prompt correctly. But I would say that that kind of user is the one most likely to be able to fix things as needed. Everybody else is just looking at an extra char in the screen, and they don't really care. I'm +1 for the default change. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
