Commit 34c97844 authored by Andrew Dunstan's avatar Andrew Dunstan

Provide environment overrides for psql file locations.

PSQL_HISTORY provides an alternative for the command history file,
and PSQLRC provides an alternative location for the .psqlrc file.
parent b59ca982
......@@ -3340,6 +3340,26 @@ PSQL_EDITOR_LINENUMBER_ARG='--line '
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>PSQL_HISTORY</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Alternative location for the command history file. Tilde ("~") expansion is performed.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>PSQLRC</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Alternative location of the user's .psqlrc file. Tilde ("~") expansion is performed.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>SHELL</envar></term>
......@@ -3390,6 +3410,11 @@ PSQL_EDITOR_LINENUMBER_ARG='--line '
to set up the client or the server to taste (using the <command>\set
</command> and <command>SET</command> commands).
</para>
<para>
The location of the user's <filename>~/.psqlrc</filename> file can
also be set explicitly via the <envar>PSQLRC</envar> environment
setting.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
......@@ -3411,6 +3436,11 @@ PSQL_EDITOR_LINENUMBER_ARG='--line '
<filename>~/.psql_history</filename>, or
<filename>%APPDATA%\postgresql\psql_history</filename> on Windows.
</para>
<para>
The location of the history file can
also be set explicitly via the <envar>PSQL_HISTORY</envar> environment
setting.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</refsect1>
......
......@@ -285,6 +285,15 @@ initializeInput(int flags)
history_lines_added = 0;
histfile = GetVariable(pset.vars, "HISTFILE");
if (histfile == NULL)
{
char * envhist;
envhist = getenv("PSQL_HISTORY");
if (envhist != NULL && strlen(envhist) > 0)
histfile = envhist;
}
if (histfile == NULL)
{
if (get_home_path(home))
......
......@@ -591,6 +591,7 @@ process_psqlrc(char *argv0)
char rc_file[MAXPGPATH];
char my_exec_path[MAXPGPATH];
char etc_path[MAXPGPATH];
char *envrc;
find_my_exec(argv0, my_exec_path);
get_etc_path(my_exec_path, etc_path);
......@@ -598,7 +599,14 @@ process_psqlrc(char *argv0)
snprintf(rc_file, MAXPGPATH, "%s/%s", etc_path, SYSPSQLRC);
process_psqlrc_file(rc_file);
if (get_home_path(home))
envrc = getenv("PSQLRC");
if (envrc != NULL && strlen(envrc) > 0)
{
expand_tilde(&envrc);
process_psqlrc_file(envrc);
}
else if (get_home_path(home))
{
snprintf(rc_file, MAXPGPATH, "%s/%s", home, PSQLRC);
process_psqlrc_file(rc_file);
......
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