Re: patch to add \watch to psql

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: "Dickson S(dot) Guedes" <listas(at)guedesoft(dot)net>
Cc: Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>, Will Leinweber <will(at)heroku(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: patch to add \watch to psql
Date: 2013-01-21 02:55:06
Message-ID: 50FCAE0A.9080807@2ndQuadrant.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 01/21/2013 02:11 AM, Dickson S. Guedes wrote:
> 2013/1/17 Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>:
>> I realized while making my adjustments that I pointlessly grew some input
>> checking in the inner loop. I just hoisted it out in this version.
> Since psql uses libreadline, what do you think about to call
> rl_clear_screen() inside that "while (true)" loop? Obviously we should
> test #if we have readline enabled to use it, but when we have it a
> nice output will bring to us.
>
> BTW, I don't know how this will behaves on OSX or Windows.
OSX uses libedit, which is readline-compatible modulo some bugs.

Windows doesn't have line-editing (sadly) so it won't do anything at all.

--
Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2013-01-21 03:01:44 Re: proposal: fix corner use case of variadic fuctions usage
Previous Message Robert Haas 2013-01-21 02:45:11 Re: logical changeset generation v4