Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2008 16:42:57 Tom Lane wrote:
>> ! putenv("PGOPTIONS=--intervalstyle=postgres_verbose");
>> So I guess the real question is what is the
>> use case for having pg_regress talk to older servers?
> There is no use. I was just thinking, why create a new environment variable
> when actually setting that variable would create all kinds of havoc for
> users.
> The change above looks appropriate to me.
Actually, in view of regressplans.sh, we have to work a bit harder than
that in pg_regress.c ... but I still agree that there's no real value in
adding a variable to libpq itself. Change committed.
regards, tom lane