Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Do we really hardcode more/less? I thought we just used whatever $PAGER
> is set to.
Yeah, if PAGER is set. If not, we fall back to some wired-in default.
But I think the proposal here is to let an emacs-related environment
variable override whether we use a pager at all.
> BTW another thing you could try is
> export PAGER=cat
> from within Emacs.
True. That would have the advantage of fixing more stuff than just psql,
so there's some attraction to doing that instead of hacking psql.
regards, tom lane
