Re: Transaction status in default psql prompt?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > What do people think about adding the transaction status indicator to the
> > default psql prompt, so it'd look something like this:
> 
> Okay with me.
> 
> > Btw., would anyone mind if the code for this indicator where not %T, but
> > say instead %x, because there is a correspondence between psql's codes and
> > tcsh's, and tcsh uses %T for the hour of the day, which is something that
> > someone might want to add someday.
> 
> Go for it.  I chose %T at random, if there's a potential conflict now is
> the time to fix it.

If we vote to do it, can we have a place holder for when we are _not_ in
a transaction, so the prompt doesn't move around:
test==> BEGIN;test=*> SELECT 1;

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