Prompt

Pgcli provides a configurable prompt. When pgcli starts up, it will use the prompt configuration found in its config file. Once pgcli is running up, you can change the prompt by using the prompt command.

The default prompt looks something like this: user@localhost:db_name>. It is formatted using the following character sequences. The default format string is \t \u@\h:\d>.

• \t - Current date and time
• \u - Username
• \h - Hostname of the server
• \d - Database name
• \p - Database port
• \i - Postgres PID
• \# - "@" sign if logged in as superuser, '>' in other case
• \n - Newline