Re: authentication/t/001_password.pl trashes ~/.psql_history

> On 23 Dec 2023, at 17:52, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> On 2023-12-22 Fr 17:11, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> After studying this some more, my conclusion is that BackgroundPsql.pm
>>> failed to borrow as much as it should have from 010_tab_completion.pl.
>>> Specifically, we want all the environment-variable changes that that
>>> script performed to be applied in any test using an interactive psql.
>>> Maybe ~/.inputrc and so forth would never affect any other test scripts,
>>> but that doesn't seem like a great bet.
>
>> Looks fine, after reading your original post I was thinking along the
>> same lines.
>
> Thanks for reviewing.
>
>> You could shorten this
>> + my $history_file = $params{history_file};
>> + $history_file ||= '/dev/null';
>> + $ENV{PSQL_HISTORY} = $history_file;
>> to just
>> $ENV{PSQL_HISTORY} = $params{history_file} || '/dev/null';
>
> OK. I was unsure which way would be considered more readable,
> but based on your advice I shortened it.

Sorry for jumping in late, only saw this now (ETOOMUCHCHRISTMASPREP) but the
committed patch looks good to me too. Thanks!

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Daniel Gustafsson