On 2020-Jun-11, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm finding it hard to see a compelling reason why that would be an
> improvement. It would make psql randomly different from 95% of the
> other programs that have similar config files. Or, if everybody
> somehow got on board with "let's put config files in ~/.config/",
> then there'd be clutter in that directory ... and we're back to
> square one.
Actually, they do: this has been kind-of standardized by freedesktop
as XDG_CONFIG_HOME -- see
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
My own ~/.config has 84 subdirs and files.
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