| From: | mhwood(at)ameritech(dot)net |
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| To: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | mhwood(at)ameritech(dot)net |
| Subject: | BUG #14912: Undocumented: 'psql -l' assumes database 'postgresql' not $USER |
| Date: | 2017-11-16 17:17:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20171116171735.1474.30450@wrigleys.postgresql.org |
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The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 14912
Logged by: Mark Wood
Email address: mhwood(at)ameritech(dot)net
PostgreSQL version: 9.6.6
Operating system: Gentoo Linux, kernel 4.12, glibc 2.25-r9
Description:
The 'psql' man page explains that the default database name is your OS
username, and that $PGDATABASE can be used to supply a different default.
That is true *unless* using -l / --list. The code shows that this option
defaults to 'postgresql' instead, overriding the libpq defaulting. I spent
quite some time reading and experimenting to determine why I was not seeing
the documented behavior.
The actual behavior may be reasonable, but if so it should be documented as
an exception for the --list function.
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