Re: [HACKERS] Patch to psql.c to allow .psqlrc file

> On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Vadim B. Mikheev wrote:
>
> > Andrew Martin wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > OK, here's a patch (to be applied after the previous one) which now checks
> > > 1. /etc/pgsqlrc
> > > 2. $(PGDATA)/pgsqlrc
> > > 3. $(HOME)/.pgsqlrc
> >
> > Ok - can you also change libpq to get it working with pgsqlrc
> > (a "global" one) on startup ?
> > (Useful if user want to have the same settings for all
> > applications.)
Hmmm. Personally I think it should be an application level thing not libpq.
In any case, I don't think we should be considering libpq patches for
6.1.1; these should be for 6.2

>
> And if you don't want your application to use a startup-file? There must
> be some switch to pgconnect that disables reading a startup-file IMO.

More to the point, should there be some such flag for psql??

>
> Maarten
>


Andrew

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