Since one of my pet hates is people who add features without
adding them to the documentation, I thought I'd better supply
a patch to the psql man page which documents the .psqlrc file :-)
(I forgot yesterday....)
Andrew
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environment variable or, if that's not set, to the Unix account name of the
current user.
.PP
+ When
+ .IR "psql"
+ starts, it reads SQL commands from
+ .IR "/etc/psqlrc"
+ and then from
+ .IR "$(HOME)/.psqlrc"
+ This allows SQL commands like
+ .IR SET
+ which can be used to set the date style to be run at the start of
+ evry session.
+ .PP
.IR "psql"
understands the following command-line options:
.TP
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