Re: [HACKERS] Useful addition for psql? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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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