Tighten usage of PSQL_WATCH_PAGER.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tighten usage of PSQL_WATCH_PAGER. Don't use PSQL_WATCH_PAGER when stdin/stdout are not a terminal. This corresponds to the restrictions on when other commands will use [PSQL_]PAGER. There isn't a lot of sense in trying to use a pager in non-interactive cases, and doing so allows an environment setting to break our tests. Also, ignore PSQL_WATCH_PAGER if it is set but empty or all-blank, for the same reasons we ignore such settings of [PSQL_]PAGER (see commit 18f8f784c). No documentation change is really needed, since there is nothing suggesting that these constraints on [PSQL_]PAGER didn't already apply to PSQL_WATCH_PAGER too. But I rearranged the text a little to make it read more naturally (IMHO anyway). Per report from Pavel Stehule. Back-patch to v15 where PSQL_WATCH_PAGER was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDTwFzmEWdA-gdAcUh0ZnxUioSfTMre71WyB_wNJy-8gw@mail.gmail.com
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| doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml | modified | +16 −15 |
| src/bin/psql/command.c | modified | +10 −4 |
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