Re: proposal: multiple psql option -c

2015-08-28 22:07 GMT+02:00 Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>:

> On 8/26/15 8:15 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>> + and then exit. This is useful in shell scripts. Start-up files
>> + (<filename>psqlrc</filename> and <filename>~/.psqlrc</filename>)
>> are
>> + ignored with this option.
>>
>
> Sorry if this was discussed and I missed it, but I think this is a bad
> idea. There's already an option to control this. More important, there's no
> option to force the rc files to be used, so if -g disables them you'd be
> stuck with that.
>
> I agree that the rc files are a danger when scripting, but if we want to
> do something about that then it needs to be consistent for ALL
> non-interactive use.
>

I don't see any problem to load rc files - but should I do it by default? I
prefer

1. default - don't read rc
2. possible long option for forcing load rc for -c and -g
3. possible long option for forcing load any file as rc for -c and -g

Regards

Pavel

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