On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Mary Sipple <msip...@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: > > > 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 > thesearch_path setting in postgresql.conf & restarting postgres? > In your users's home directory, place a '.psqlrc' file with the command 'set search_path=<blah>' http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/app-psql.html --Scott
