Re: alternate psql file locations

On 01/01/2012 04:05 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 12/31/2011 04:26 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre@commandprompt.com>  wrote:
>>> Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of sáb dic 31 12:52:02 -0300
>>> 2011:
>>>> It's not a big thing, but I just found myself in a shared environment
>>>> wanting to be able to set alternative locations for the psql startup
>>>> file and history. I know there's the HISTFILE variable, but I can't
>>>> easily set that automatically unless I can at least have my own
>>>> .psqlrc.
>>>> ISTM it should be a fairly simple thing to provide these, via
>>>> environment variables. Is there general interest in such a thing?
>>> I wanted such a thing mere two weeks ago ...
>> Generally when I've wanted these things, I just make a new "$HOME" in
>> my shared user home dir:
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>> export HOME=$HOME/aidan
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>> It's worked for things I've wanted, I haven't tried it for psql
>> stuff....
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> Yeah, but it's a bit hacky. I might well not want $HOME reset. Here's
> a small patch that does what I think would suit me and Alvaro.
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Incidentally, this actually doesn't work anyway. psql gets the home path
from getpwuid() and ignores $HOME. You could argue that that's a bug,
but it's been that way for a long time.

cheers

andrew