| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | James Tanis <jtt(at)sysd(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PSQLRC environment variable. |
| Date: | 2004-03-10 01:43:13 |
| Message-ID: | 200403100143.i2A1hEs26146@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> James Tanis <jtt(at)sysd(dot)com> writes:
> > In the tradition of telnet, xinit, and others, I've created a patch which
> > allows users to override the location of .psqlrc by setting the PSQLRC
> > environment variable.
>
> Uh, why is that a good idea?
Well, suppose you want all your users to use the same psqlrc file.
Instead of creating symlinks for every user, you can just set PSQLRC in
/etc/profile and everyone gets it.
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