Ingres has this, and I think it is a good idea.
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Andrew Martin wrote:
>
> >
> > With things like the date format now being set via the SET command
> > rather than as a compile-time option, I think it would be nice
> > for psql to read ~/.psqlrc (or some such thing) as a set of
> > commands (or SQL) to read whenever it is run. Thus you could
> > put
> > SET datestyle TO 'european,sql'
> > into this file to default to those setting whenever you run
> > psql.
> >
> > Any thoughts before I start hacking?
>
> sounds like a reasonable extension to have, for those that want it...
>
> Marc G. Fournier scrappy@hub.org
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org scrappy@freebsd.org
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Bruce Momjian
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