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Re: alternate psql file locations

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-08-27T02:13:18Z
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On Mon, Jan  2, 2012 at 11:18:47AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>It's worked for things I've wanted, I haven't tried it for psql
> >>stuff....
> >>
> >
> >
> >Yeah, but it's a bit hacky. I might well not want $HOME reset.
> >Here's a small patch that does what I think would suit me and
> >Alvaro.
> >
> >
> 
> Incidentally, this actually doesn't work anyway. psql gets the home
> path from getpwuid() and ignores $HOME. You could argue that that's
> a bug, but it's been that way for a long time.

So, do we want to fix this and honor $HOME?

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