Re: Quieting the copyright/startup message...

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 17:33, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> After seeing the "Welcome to psql 8.0.0beta3, the PostgreSQL
> interactive terminal." message, I finally got irritated enough at it to
> try and figure out how to silence it without using the -q option to
> psql(1).

I think the second hunk (arranging to read ~/.psqlrc before emitting the
copyright message) is all that's necessary:

[neilc:/home/neilc/pgsql]% cvs diff
Index: src/bin/psql/startup.c
===================================================================
RCS file:
/home/neilc/private-cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/startup.c,v
retrieving revision 1.101
diff -c -r1.101 startup.c
*** src/bin/psql/startup.c      27 Sep 2004 19:16:02 -0000      1.101
--- src/bin/psql/startup.c      5 Oct 2004 00:29:47 -0000
***************
*** 280,285 ****
--- 280,288 ----
         */
        else
        {
+               if (!options.no_psqlrc)
+                       process_psqlrc(argv[0]);
+
                if (!QUIET() && !pset.notty)
                {
                        printf(gettext("Welcome to %s %s, the PostgreSQL
interactive terminal.\n\n"
***************
*** 302,309 ****
                SetVariable(pset.vars, "PROMPT2", DEFAULT_PROMPT2);
                SetVariable(pset.vars, "PROMPT3", DEFAULT_PROMPT3);

-               if (!options.no_psqlrc)
-                       process_psqlrc(argv[0]);
                if (!pset.notty)
                        initializeInput(options.no_readline ? 0 : 1);
                if (options.action_string)              /* -f - was used
*/
--- 305,310 ----
[neilc:/home/neilc/pgsql]% cat ~/.psqlrc
\set QUIET on

[neilc:/home/neilc/pgsql]% psql
neilc=#

I'll apply the second hunk to CVS later today.

-Neil