Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes:
> Pushed, after retesting on macOS (with the fixed pspg that has by now
> arrived in MacPorts), FreeBSD and Linux. Thanks!
After playing with this along the way to fixing the sigwait issues,
I have a gripe/suggestion. If I hit control-C while the thing
is waiting between queries, eg
regression=# select now() \watch
Tue Jul 13 13:44:44 2021 (every 2s)
now
-------------------------------
2021-07-13 13:44:44.396565-04
(1 row)
Tue Jul 13 13:44:46 2021 (every 2s)
now
-------------------------------
2021-07-13 13:44:46.396572-04
(1 row)
^Cregression=#
then as you can see I get nothing but the "^C" echo before the next
psql prompt. The problem with this is that now libreadline is
misinformed about the cursor position, messing up any editing I
might try to do on the next line of input. So I think it would
be a good idea to have some explicit final output when the \watch
command terminates, along the line of
...
Tue Jul 13 13:44:46 2021 (every 2s)
now
-------------------------------
2021-07-13 13:44:46.396572-04
(1 row)
^C\watch cancelled
regression=#
This strikes me as a usability improvement even without the
readline-confusion angle.
regards, tom lane
