| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | David Christensen <david(at)endpoint(dot)com>, gabrielle <gorthx(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Mark Wong <markwkm(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Explicit psqlrc |
| Date: | 2010-07-21 14:42:56 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTimOJOoDXgyrffV=3T-Zzxu5Bn=Ro9NADW=ANCeL@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On tis, 2010-07-20 at 11:48 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> It's tempting to propose making .psqlrc apply only in interactive
>> mode, period. But that would be an incompatibility with previous
>> releases, and I'm not sure it's the behavior we want, either.
>
> What is a use case for having .psqlrc be read in noninteractive use?
Well, for example, if I hate the new ASCII format with a fiery passion
that can never be quenched (and, by the way, I do), then I'd like this
to apply:
\pset linestyle old-ascii
Even when I do this:
psql -c '...whatever...'
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise Postgres Company
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