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Re: Is my home $HOME or is it getpwent()->pw_dir ?

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

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From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-12-18T21:16:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 2:07 PM Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> wrote:

> On 12/18/21 15:57, Chapman Flack wrote:
> > I see that I can set
> > a HISTFILE variable (or set PSQL_HISTORY in the environment),
> > and can set PSQLRC in the environment (but not as a variable),
> > and nothing can set the .pgpass location
>
> well, not in the psql docs, but in the environment variable section
> for libpq I do see a PGPASSFILE.
>
>
psql docs saith:

"This utility, like most other PostgreSQL utilities, also uses the
environment variables supported by libpq (see Section 34.15)."

David J.

Commits

  1. Clean up messy API for src/port/thread.c.

  2. Prefer $HOME when looking up the current user's home directory.