Horton
Menu

Re: Explicit psqlrc

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

View thread
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-03-06T21:33:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> 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?

The analogy I was thinking about was psql -X, but I agree that it's
not obvious why this shouldn't be thought of as an additional -f file.

			regards, tom lane