In the tradition of telnet, xinit, and others, I've created a patch which
allows users to override the location of .psqlrc by setting the PSQLRC
environment variable. I occurs to me that you have probably considered this
and the fact that it is not implemented suggests that you have rejected the
idea, but I needed it and I figured it couldn't hurt to pass it along.
PSQLRC overrides $HOME/.psqlrc and, as with $HOME/.psqlrc, if there is an
error accessing the file, the function just returns having done nothing.
Cheers,
/jtt
jtt@sysd.com
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Index: startup.c
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RCS file: /src/cvs/postgres/src/bin/psql/startup.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.4
diff -u -r1.1.1.4 startup.c
--- startup.c 16 Dec 2003 22:15:32 -0000 1.1.1.4
+++ startup.c 7 Mar 2004 15:15:54 -0000
@@ -561,7 +561,12 @@
#ifdef WIN32
#define R_OK 0
#endif
-
+ if ((psqlrc = getenv("PSQLRC")))
+ {
+ if (access(psqlrc, R_OK) == 0)
+ process_file(psqlrc);
+ return;
+ }
/* Look for one in the home dir */
home = getenv("HOME");
