On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On tis, 2010-07-20 at 11:48 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> It's tempting to propose making .psqlrc apply only in interactive
>> mode, period. But that would be an incompatibility with previous
>> releases, and I'm not sure it's the behavior we want, either.
>
> What is a use case for having .psqlrc be read in noninteractive use?
Well, for example, if I hate the new ASCII format with a fiery passion
that can never be quenched (and, by the way, I do), then I'd like this
to apply:
\pset linestyle old-ascii
Even when I do this:
psql -c '...whatever...'
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Robert Haas
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