Hi David: I see what you are saying; sorry for the confusion. This is how postgres operates on my system:
[victoria@victoria ~]$ echo $HOME
/home/victoria
[victoria@victoria ~]$ which postgres
/usr/bin/postgres
[victoria@victoria ~]$ postgres
postgres does not know where to find the server configuration file.
You must specify the --config-file or -D invocation option or set the PGDATA environment variable.
[victoria@victoria ~]$ psql
psql: FATAL: database "victoria" does not exist
[victoria@victoria ~]$ sudo -u postgres -i
[postgres@victoria ~]$ echo $HOME
/var/lib/postgres
[postgres@victoria ~]$ psql
psql (9.6.3)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=# \q
[postgres@victoria ~]$ exit
logout
[victoria@victoria ~]$
... That postgres had a different $HOME environment than mine was not apparent to me, when I posted this question.
> What does "your" ~/.psqlrc have to do with any of this? If you are
> executing psql while masquarding at the postgres user its the postgres
> user's ~/.psqlrc file that will be looked for.
> Typically one doesn't execute psql as the postgres user. They configure
> the system so that they can execute psql as a regular user. You should
> probably do that and then everything should work like you are thinking.
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