Hi
2017-07-26 13:15 GMT+02:00 Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilm...@ilmari.org>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I wrote a special pager for psql. Surely, this pager is not good for
> paging
> > of man pages. So is not good to set it as global pager. We can introduce
> > new env variable PSQL_PAGER for this purpose. It can work similar like
> > PSQL_EDITOR variable.
> >
> > Notes, comments?
>
> There's already the option to put '\setenv PAGER ...' in .psqlrc, but I
> guess having it work like EDITOR makes sense for consistency, as well as
> not affecting commands spawned from psql via e.g. \!.
>
here is a patch - it is trivial
Regards
Pavel
>
> - ilmari
> --
> "The surreality of the universe tends towards a maximum" -- Skud's Law
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>
commit cc5aac7ab431dd0a95062aa5171f860215d5bc4a
Author: Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gooddata.com>
Date: Wed Jul 26 18:12:26 2017 +0200
initial
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index c592edac60..ef89f81fdf 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -4087,6 +4087,7 @@ $endif
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><envar>PSQL_PAGER</envar></term>
<term><envar>PAGER</envar></term>
<listitem>
@@ -4096,8 +4097,10 @@ $endif
<literal>more</literal> or <literal>less</literal>. The default
is platform-dependent. Use of the pager can be disabled by setting
<envar>PAGER</envar> to empty, or by using pager-related options of
- the <command>\pset</command> command.
+ the <command>\pset</command> command. These variables are examined
+ in the order listed; the first that is set is used.
</para>
+
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/help.c b/src/bin/psql/help.c
index b3dbb5946e..9b0b83b0bd 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/help.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/help.c
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ helpVariables(unsigned short int pager)
#endif
fprintf(output, _(" COLUMNS number of columns for wrapped format\n"));
- fprintf(output, _(" PAGER name of external pager program\n"));
+ fprintf(output, _(" PSQL_PAGER, PAGER name of external pager program\n"));
fprintf(output, _(" PGAPPNAME same as the application_name connection parameter\n"));
fprintf(output, _(" PGDATABASE same as the dbname connection parameter\n"));
fprintf(output, _(" PGHOST same as the host connection parameter\n"));
diff --git a/src/fe_utils/print.c b/src/fe_utils/print.c
index f756f767e5..8af5bbe97e 100644
--- a/src/fe_utils/print.c
+++ b/src/fe_utils/print.c
@@ -2870,7 +2870,9 @@ PageOutput(int lines, const printTableOpt *topt)
const char *pagerprog;
FILE *pagerpipe;
- pagerprog = getenv("PAGER");
+ pagerprog = getenv("PSQL_PAGER");
+ if (!pagerprog)
+ pagerprog = getenv("PAGER");
if (!pagerprog)
pagerprog = DEFAULT_PAGER;
else
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