Re: Explicit psqlrc
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>, gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-21T14:42:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote: > 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? Well, for example, if I hate the new ASCII format with a fiery passion that can never be quenched (and, by the way, I do), then I'd like this to apply: \pset linestyle old-ascii Even when I do this: psql -c '...whatever...' -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company