Re: Seperate command-line histories for seperate databases

mbertheau(dot)pg(at)googlemail(dot)com ("Markus Bertheau") writes:
> 2006/3/17, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> > > The psql manual pages for 8.1 now has:
>> >
>> > > \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.

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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