Re: proposal: psql: check env variable PSQL_PAGER

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal: psql: check env variable PSQL_PAGER
Date: 2017-07-26 08:31:37
Message-ID: CAOBaU_YYYfBswSk5kDH+GQr5tATWDcVJxr3sNdeX5PZho_4ajA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I wrote a special pager for psql. Surely, this pager is not good for paging
> of man pages. So is not good to set it as global pager. We can introduce new
> env variable PSQL_PAGER for this purpose. It can work similar like
> PSQL_EDITOR variable.
>

+1. I used to have a psql alias just for this, so it'd definitely be useful.

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