Re: small windows psqlrc re-wording

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: small windows psqlrc re-wording
Date: 2022-09-09 17:52:49
Message-ID: 168204.1662745969@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> On testing that in HEAD, I read

> Both the system-wide startup file and the user's personal startup file
> can be made psql-version-specific by appending a dash and the
> PostgreSQL major or minor release number to the file name, for example
> ~/.psqlrc-16 or ~/.psqlrc-16devel.

> That's a little confusing but it's actually accurate, because what
> process_psqlrc_file appends is the string PG_VERSION, so in a devel
> branch or beta release there's a non-numeric "minor release".
> I'm inclined to go ahead and do it like that.

I decided that what I found jarring about that was the use of "release
number" with a non-numeric version, so I changed it to "release
identifier" and pushed.

regards, tom lane

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