Thread: Set search_path for session

We have a script wrapper for psql which reads a configuration file and constructs a psql command to connect to the configured instance of postgres. We would like to include a search_path setting in the configuraration file and have the wrapper use that to set the search_path for the psql session. I tried using the -v flag (-vsearch_path=xxxx) with the psql command but that did not work:

> psql -h$SOCKET -U$USER -p$PORT -vsearch_path=$SCHEMAS $DBNAME

The search_path remains at the default setting:

iii=> show search_path;

  search_path  

----------------

 "$user",public

(1 row)

Can anyone tell me how I can make this happen short of changing the search_path setting in postgresql.conf & restarting postgres?

Thanks,  

Mary Sipple

Mary Sipple wrote:
> We have a script wrapper for psql which reads a configuration file and
> constructs a psql command to connect to the configured instance of postgres.
> We would like to include a search_path setting in the configuraration file
> and have the wrapper use that to set the search_path for the psql session. I
> tried using the -v flag (-vsearch_path=xxxx) with the psql command but that
> did not work:
>
> > psql -h$SOCKET -U$USER -p$PORT -vsearch_path=$SCHEMAS $DBNAME

This should work:

export PGOPTIONS="-c search_path=$SCHEMAS"
psql -h$SOCKET -U$USER -p$PORT $DBNAME

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Mary Sipple <msipple@iii.com> wrote:
> We have a script wrapper for psql which reads a configuration file and
> constructs a psql command to connect to the configured instance of postgres.
> We would like to include a search_path setting in the configuraration file
> and have the wrapper use that to set the search_path for the psql session. I
> tried using the -v flag (-vsearch_path=xxxx) with the psql command but that
> did not work:


> Can anyone tell me how I can make this happen short of changing the
> search_path setting in postgresql.conf & restarting postgres?

You can also alter user or database as well.

alter user abc set search_path='xyz','public';

Thanks everyone!

A follow up question: Is there any way to set the search_path to all
existing schemas? I'm looking for some kind of wild card method that will
automatically pick up every schema.

Thanks,   Mary