Re: Explicit psqlrc
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, 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: 2010-07-22T13:09:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:06 PM, David Christensen <david@endpoint.com> wrote: > > On Jul 21, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >> 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. > > > So not to let the thread drop, it appears that we're faced with the following situation: Hmm. I thought we almost had consensus on changing the historical behavior of -c. If we do that, this all gets much simpler. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company