Re: POLA violation with \c service=

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 05:56:12PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> David Fetter wrote:
>
> > My thinking behind this was that the patch is a bug fix and intended
> > to be back-patched, so I wanted to mess with as little infrastructure
> > as possible. A new version of libpq seems like a very big ask for
> > such a case. You'll recall that the original problem was that
> >
> > \c service=foo
> >
> > only worked accidentally for some pretty narrow use cases and broke
> > without much of a clue for the rest. It turned out that the general
> > problem was that options given to psql on the command line were not
> > even remotely equivalent to \c, even though they were documented to
> > be.
>
> So, in view of these arguments and those put forward by Pavel
> downthread, I think the attached is an acceptable patch for the master
> branch. It doesn't apply to back branches though; 9.4 and 9.3 have a
> conflict in tab-complete.c, 9.2 has additional conflicts in command.c,
> and 9.1 and 9.0 are problematic all over because they don't have
> src/common. Could you please submit patches adapted for each group of
> branches?

Please find patches attached for each live branch.

Cheers,
David.
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