Tom,
> If you're proposing changing the contents of the default prompt, I think
> that has very little chance of passing. A new option for something to
> add into a custom prompt might get accepted. I'm not sure that that
> approach would do much for the scenario you describe, since it's
> unlikely that anyone would add it to their prompt (at least not before
> they'd gotten burnt...). However, I don't recall hearing of anyone
> getting confused like this before, and you say you figured it out pretty
> quickly, so it doesn't seem like a big problem.
Well, I think having a \ command to show the current \o setting would be
fine. Actually, it might be better to show *all* psql settings with a
general command, including things like \timing and \pset.
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