Re: display hot standby state in psql prompt

2025-07-22 Thread Jim Jones
Hi On 21.07.25 21:12, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > Seems good enough for me. I think as long as we document it well, it's > only going to be a net positive, even with some edge cases. I just moved the patch from PG19-Drafts to PG19-2 commitfest.[1] Thanks a lot for the feedback! Best regards, J

Re: display hot standby state in psql prompt

2025-07-21 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM Jim Jones wrote: > What do you think? > Seems good enough for me. I think as long as we document it well, it's only going to be a net positive, even with some edge cases. Cheers, Greg -- Crunchy Data - https://www.crunchydata.com Enterprise Postgres Software Pro

Re: display hot standby state in psql prompt

2025-06-26 Thread Jim Jones
On 26.06.25 02:52, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM Jim Jones > wrote: > > Since I cannot get the value of transaction_read_only via > PQparameterStatus. > > > Hmmm... we can at least get default_transaction_read_only. As > fe-connect.c points out: >        

Re: display hot standby state in psql prompt

2025-06-25 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM Jim Jones wrote: > Since I cannot get the value of transaction_read_only via > PQparameterStatus. Hmmm... we can at least get default_transaction_read_only. As fe-connect.c points out: /* * "transaction_read_only = on" pr

Re: display hot standby state in psql prompt

2025-06-25 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM Jim Jones wrote: > if (pset.db && PQparameterStatus(pset.db, "in_hot_standby")) > Seems transaction_read_only might be a more useful thing to examine? That's the side-effect, if you will, that people really care about when in hot standby mode (and of course, w

Re: display hot standby state in psql prompt

2025-06-25 Thread Jim Jones
Hi Greg On 25.06.25 17:17, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > Seems transaction_read_only might be a more useful thing to examine? > That's the side-effect, if you will, that people really care about > when in hot standby mode (and of course, we can get into TRO other ways). Good point. But wouldn't it

display hot standby state in psql prompt

2025-06-25 Thread Jim Jones
Hi, Some weeks ago we briefly discussed in the discord channel the possibility of introducing a psql prompt display option to identify if the connected database is in hot standby mode, which can be useful when using multiple hosts in the connection string. Right now, it's using the in_hot_standby