Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mi may 25 16:07:55 -0400 2011:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > > Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar may 24 17:11:17 -0400 2011:
> > >> Right. It would also increase the cognitive load on the user to have
> > >> to remember the command-line go-to-line-number switch for his editor.
> > >> So I don't particularly want to redesign this feature. However, I can
> > >> see the possible value of letting EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH be set from
> > >> the same place that you set EDITOR, which would suggest that we allow
> > >> the value to come from an environment variable. I'm not sure whether
> > >> there is merit in allowing both that source and ~/.psqlrc, though
> > >> possibly for Windows users it might be easier if ~/.psqlrc worked.
> >
> > > If we're going to increase the number of options in .psqlrc that do not
> > > work with older psql versions, can I please have .psqlrc-MAJORVERSION or
> > > some such? Having 8.3's psql complain all the time because it doesn't
> > > understand "linestyle" is annoying.
> >
> > 1. I thought we already did have that.
>
> Oh, true, we have that, though it's not very usable because you have to
> rename the file from .psqlrc-9.0.3 to .psqlrc-9.0.4 when you upgrade,
> which is kinda silly.

True. We don't add configuration changes in minor versions so having
minor-version granularity makes no sense.

The attached patch changes this to use the _major_ version number for
psql rc files. Does this have to be backward-compatible? Should I
check for minor and major matches? That is going to be confusing to
document.

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