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Re: Explicit psqlrc

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>, gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-21T16:41:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 17:24 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2010-07-20 at 11:48 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > It's tempting to propose making .psqlrc apply only in interactive
> > mode, period.  But that would be an incompatibility with previous
> > releases, and I'm not sure it's the behavior we want, either.
> 
> What is a use case for having .psqlrc be read in noninteractive use?

Changing the historical defaults, such as error/exit behaviour, ensuring
timing is on etc..

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