Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar may 24 17:11:17 -0400 2011:

> Right. It would also increase the cognitive load on the user to have
> to remember the command-line go-to-line-number switch for his editor.
> So I don't particularly want to redesign this feature. However, I can
> see the possible value of letting EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH be set from
> the same place that you set EDITOR, which would suggest that we allow
> the value to come from an environment variable. I'm not sure whether
> there is merit in allowing both that source and ~/.psqlrc, though
> possibly for Windows users it might be easier if ~/.psqlrc worked.

If we're going to increase the number of options in .psqlrc that do not
work with older psql versions, can I please have .psqlrc-MAJORVERSION or
some such? Having 8.3's psql complain all the time because it doesn't
understand "linestyle" is annoying.

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