Re: Explicit psqlrc

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

Cc: gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com>, David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-06-22T01:16:22Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
>> So none of the above sounds like desired behavior to me...  is that just me?
>
> Yeah, I'm not really thrilled with this..  I mentioned earlier what I
> thought would be a useful feature (basically, a switch which would
> ignore the main psqlrc and turn on the various options that make sense
> for a script), but that seems to have fallen to the wayside..

Well, that might be a good idea, too, but my expectation is that:

psql -f one -f two -f three

ought to behave in a manner fairly similar to:

cat one two three > all
psql -f all

and it sounds like with this patch that's far from being the case.

-- 
Robert Haas
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