Thanks for the update. > edit: PS, thanks for the idea of putting what I assume is the backend pid in psql's prompt. I need to go figure out how to do that rig

Thanks for the update. > edit: PS, thanks for the idea of putting what I assume is the backend pid in psql's prompt. I need to go figure out how to do that right now! Here's my ~/.psqlrc: andres@awork3:~/src/postgresql$ cat ~/.psqlrc \set QUIET 1 \pset pager always \set VERBOSITY verbose \pset null '(null)' \set COMP_KEYWORD_CASE upper \pset linestyle unicode \pset border 2 \set PROMPT1 '%/[%p][%l]%x%R%# ' \set PROMPT2 '%/[%p][%l]%x%R%# ' \set PROMPT3 'c:%/[%p][%l]%x%R%# ' \set HISTCONTROL ignoredups \set HISTSIZE 100000 \timing on \set QUIET 0