Re: Should libpq's environment settings affect the session - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Should libpq's environment settings affect the session
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Msg-id 200304172116.h3HLG3X19179@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Should libpq's environment settings affect the session default?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Question: is the old behavior a bug?  Or should we preserve it?
> I believe it was an implementation artifact, not something anyone
> ever thought about carefully.  Perhaps we need to keep it on
> grounds of backwards compatibility, or perhaps not.  I think a good
> argument can be made that these settings *should* be treated as the
> session defaults.

Agreed.  They should behave the same as the command line settings, as
you stated.

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