Re: Changing the continuation-line prompt in psql?

Excerpts from David E. Wheeler's message of vie abr 29 13:04:35 -0300 2011:
> On Apr 29, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > AFAICT the initial prompt is always "mysql> ", so they don't have to
> > think hard about how many spaces to insert to make it line up.  But
> > we could certainly invent a prompt escape that means "as many spaces
> > as there are characters in the current DB name".  (Or maybe we should
> > try to generalize that idea, so you could get similar behavior for
> > custom prompts involving usernames etc?)
> 
> +1 I like this idea, so the prompt might by default be
> 
>     postgres=> 
>             +> 

That was my immediate thought after seeing Magnus' response too.

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