On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:15 AM, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> >> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes: >> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> >> Perhaps we should replace the "Watch every Ns" text by the user-given >> >> title if a title has been set? That would conserve screen space. >> >> > The extra line doesn't both me and given the length of the timestamp I >> > suspect many titles would cause the combined line length to exceed >> > terminal >> > width and cause wrapping anyway. In my specific case it would though I >> > am >> > using an abnormally narrow width. >> >> You speak as though the title will be chosen without any regard for the >> context it's used in, which I rather doubt. Wouldn't people pick the >> title for a \watch query so that it fits? (In any case they could >> force the issue by including a \n in their title...) >> > > True that. > > I don't have a strong opinion either way. Having a single, condensed, title > line would be nice though using two in order to not be cryptic has its own > appeal.
Just looking at that I just hacked the attached that enforces \n at the end of the user-defined title (that's easily changeable): =# \pset title 'foo bar' Title is "foo bar". =# select 1; foo bar ?column? ---------- 1 (1 row) =# \watch 1 foo bar Watch every 1s Tue Jan 12 13:54:04 2016
?column? ---------- 1 (1 row) -- Michael
On the code side calling it "caption" would make for less confusing reading since "title" is already defined and "head_title" just doesn't distinguish enough.
There doesn't seem to be any way to let the user decide - by adding a newline to the end them-self - so a decision will have to be reached.
