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    Change the prompt in clickhouse-client

    This article explains how to change the prompt in your Clickhouse client and clickhouse-local terminal window from :) to a prefix followed by :)

    If you don't like how clickhouse client and clickhouse-local display the prompt in your terminal window, it is possible to change it to add a prefix. This article explains how to change the prompt to whatever you want.

    The default prompt is your local computer name followed by :) :

    The following are variables that you can use in a prompt: {user}, {host}

    There are several ways to update the prompt and we'll go through them each.

    --prompt flag​

    The first way to change the flag is using the --prompt:

    This will add the finger emoji before the smiley face:

    Config file - top level​

    Alternatively, you can provide a prompt prefix in a config.xml file:

    We can use a config file with any name we like and pass it in using the -C flag:

    Prefer your config files to be in YAML? That works too:

    Config file - connections_credentials​

    Alternatively, you can specify a prompt per connection credentials. This only makes sense when using clickhouse-client.

    We can then try to connect with the dev connection:

    Or the prod one:

    And here's a YAML version:

    With the dev connnection:

    And now prod:

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