RE: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

If that's the impression, then no, there's only one, sqlprompt.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Lee [mailto:Stephen.Lee_at_DTAG.Com] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:50 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

I got the impression that the question is if sql plus has the equivalent of the Unix PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 prompts.

> -----Original Message-----
>
> The command is "set sqlprompt".
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I've set up my login.sql so that my prompt shows my username
> & the sid of the db to which I'm connected. This works well,
> but has made it tough to drag-select text b/c now the first
> line sticks way out relative to the continuation lines, like so:
>
> rpardee_at_prod> select username
> 2 from dba_users
> 3 where username like '%MC%' ;
>
> Is it possible to specify the prompt that shows on
> continuation lines (or otherwise pad it out) in sql*plus?
>

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