Re: .psqlrc output for \pset commands

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 19:24 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Is this desirable?  \set QUIET at the top of .psqlrc fixes it, but I am
> > wondering if we should be automatically doing quiet while .psqlrc is
> > processed.
> 
> There is some precedent for not emitting the messages: most Unix tools
> don't echo the results of applying their .rc files at startup.
> Personally, I run psql frequently but very rarely modify my .psqlrc, so
> seeing "timing is on" and similar messages echoed to the screen is
> almost always noise.

Yea, that was really my point --- our current behavior doesn't match the
way most Unix tools behave when executing startup files.

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