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Re: Explicit psqlrc

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.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>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-21T17:31:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of mié jul 21 10:24:26 -0400 2010:
> 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?

Even if there weren't one, why does it get applied to -f but not -c?
They're both noninteractive.