Re: Should libpq's environment settings affect the session

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Should libpq's environment settings affect the session
Date: 2003-04-17 21:16:03
Message-ID: 200304172116.h3HLG3X19179@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Question: is the old behavior a bug? Or should we preserve it?
> I believe it was an implementation artifact, not something anyone
> ever thought about carefully. Perhaps we need to keep it on
> grounds of backwards compatibility, or perhaps not. I think a good
> argument can be made that these settings *should* be treated as the
> session defaults.

Agreed. They should behave the same as the command line settings, as
you stated.

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