Re: Seperate command-line histories for seperate databases

Chris Browne wrote:

>mbertheau(dot)pg(at)googlemail(dot)com ("Markus Bertheau") writes:
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>>2006/3/17, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>:
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>>>Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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>>>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>The psql manual pages for 8.1 now has:
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>>>>>
>>>>> \set HISTFILE ~/.psql_history- :DBNAME
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>Any reason psql doesn't do this by default? It is clear that the
>>database name does not unambiguously identify a database, but having a
>>history for each database name is already an improvement over the
>>current situation.
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>>
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>I fairly frequently find myself accessing different (but similar)
>databases, and it's quite valuable to be able to submit the *same*
>queries to them.
>
>This change would make it troublesome to do that. I'd not be all that
>keen on the change...
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>

Just what I was thinking.

cheers

andrew