Thanks Bruce M. for your offer to write a patch. I looked at the psql cod=
e but it was a bit more complex than I expected (what program isn't?) so I=
would be happy to take you up on your offer.
For detecting the emacs 'dumb' shell mode, where a pager doesn't make sens=
e, any of the suggested environment variable methods would work and I don'=
t think it matters which.
Of course this small change (and it is indeed a UI enhancement, not a bug)=
has stirred up opinions. The way I see it is that psql is trying to be f=
riendly by guessing whether the user wants to run a pager or not. If it w=
ere written to be simple and correct (as is the right approach for core da=
tabase code) then it would never do such guessing; the pager would have to=
be explicitly requested. If psql is going to guess on the user's behalf,=
it makes sense to do a good job.
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Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>
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