Re: Set search_path for session - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Set search_path for session
Date
Msg-id 20090417162156.GG7709@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Set search_path for session  ("Mary Sipple" <msipple@iii.com>)
Responses Re: Set search_path for session
List pgsql-general
Mary Sipple wrote:
> We have a script wrapper for psql which reads a configuration file and
> constructs a psql command to connect to the configured instance of postgres.
> We would like to include a search_path setting in the configuraration file
> and have the wrapper use that to set the search_path for the psql session. I
> tried using the -v flag (-vsearch_path=xxxx) with the psql command but that
> did not work:
>
> > psql -h$SOCKET -U$USER -p$PORT -vsearch_path=$SCHEMAS $DBNAME

This should work:

export PGOPTIONS="-c search_path=$SCHEMAS"
psql -h$SOCKET -U$USER -p$PORT $DBNAME

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