Re: Server name in psql prompt

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> Is there any way of getting psql to display the name of the
> currently-connected server in its prompt, and perhaps a custom string
> identifying e.g. a disc set, without having to create a psqlrc file on
> every client system that's got a precompiled psql installed?

Sure, use backticks to get what you want into there. For example,
here's one of my common prompts:

\set PROMPT1 '%n@%`hostname`:%>%R%#%x%x%x '

I once had a client that needed something more than that, so I
wrote a quick shell script that outputted the info on a single
line and then called the script inside the backticks.

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