2010/3/5 Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>:
> 2010/3/5 David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>:
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>>> I've now for the second time found myself wanting to specify an
>>> explicit psqlrc file instead of just parsing ~/.psqlrc, so attached is
>>> a patch that accepts the PSQLRC environment variable to control which
>>> psqlrc file is used.
>>>
>>> Any objections to this (obviously including documentation - this is
>>> just the trivial code)
>>
>>
>> My bikeshed has a --psqlrc path/to/file, but +1 on the idea.
>
> The main reason I went with environment variable is that it's the
> path-of-least-code :-) And it easily fullfills my use-cases for it,
> which has me launching interactive psql with completely different
> settings from a script.
>
> Do you have a use-case where --psqlrc would be more useful than an
> environment variable, or is it *only* bike-shedding? ;)
Just to be clear, the code difference isn't very large. Attached is a
patch that does both PSQLRC and --psqlrc.
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Magnus Hagander
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