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Re: Explicit psqlrc

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-03-06T17:56:27Z
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On fre, 2010-03-05 at 11:30 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Do you have a use-case where --psqlrc would be more useful than an
> > environment variable, or is it *only* bike-shedding? ;)
> 
> Just to be clear, the code difference isn't very large. Attached is a
> patch that does both PSQLRC and --psqlrc.

I can see the environment variable variant as an analogy to BASH_ENV,
but what is the use case for the --psqlrc option?  Wouldn't it be easier
and more useful to just be able to process more than one file, say by
specifying -f more than once?