Re: Explicit psqlrc

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> 2010/3/7 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> If we were going to support multiple -f options, it would be sensible
>> to interpret "-f -" as "read from stdin until EOF".

> Right, that would work. Though it would be a lot more user-unfriendly
> for such a simple thing, IMHO.

If the issue had come up even once before in psql's existence, I might
think that user-friendliness would be a good argument.  As things stand,
I don't believe the average user will care about it in the least.  I'd
be willing to lay long odds that the average user doesn't even have a
.psqlrc file, much less feel the need to override it.  I'd rather see
"use a substitute psqlrc" be a behavior you can build out of existing
general-purpose switches than still another option that has to be
documented and remembered.

> Also, "-f -" and just "psql" behaves different today (for example, in
> the showing of startup banners).

Yes, there would be some things to think about there, which is why it's
a topic for a new devel cycle rather than something to shoehorn in
after the close of the last CF.
        regards, tom lane