Re: Seperate command-line histories for seperate databases - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Chris Browne wrote:

>mbertheau.pg@googlemail.com ("Markus Bertheau") writes:
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>>2006/3/17, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>:
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>>>Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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>>>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>>>The psql manual pages for 8.1 now has:
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>>>>>              \set HISTFILE ~/.psql_history- :DBNAME
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>>Any reason psql doesn't do this by default? It is clear that the
>>database name does not unambiguously identify a database, but having a
>>history for each database name is already an improvement over the
>>current situation.
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>I fairly frequently find myself accessing different (but similar)
>databases, and it's quite valuable to be able to submit the *same*
>queries to them.
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>This change would make it troublesome to do that.  I'd not be all that
>keen on the change...
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Just what I was thinking.

cheers

andrew