Changeset: 26966ab0abac for MonetDB
URL: http://dev.monetdb.org/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=26966ab0abac
Modified Files:
        clients/mapiclient/mclient.1
        clients/mapiclient/msqldump.1
Branch: Jul2015
Log Message:

Add a blurb about .monetdb to msqldump's manual.


diffs (47 lines):

diff --git a/clients/mapiclient/mclient.1 b/clients/mapiclient/mclient.1
--- a/clients/mapiclient/mclient.1
+++ b/clients/mapiclient/mclient.1
@@ -451,4 +451,3 @@ for more information about the COPY INTO
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .IR msqldump (1),
 .IR mserver5 (1)
-
diff --git a/clients/mapiclient/msqldump.1 b/clients/mapiclient/msqldump.1
--- a/clients/mapiclient/msqldump.1
+++ b/clients/mapiclient/msqldump.1
@@ -17,6 +17,30 @@ accelerators, SQL- and XML- frontends.
 .I Msqldump
 is the program to dump an MonetDB/SQL database.
 The dump can be used to populate a new MonetDB/SQL database.
+.PP
+Before
+.I msqldump
+starts parsing command line options, it reads a
+.I .monetdb
+file.
+If the environment variable
+.B DOTMONETDBFILE
+is set, it reads the file pointed to by that variable instead.
+When unset,
+.I msqldump
+searches for a
+.I .monetdb
+file in the current working directory, and if that doesn't exist, in the
+current user's home directory.
+This file can contain defaults for the flags
+.BR user
+and
+.BR password .
+To disable reading the
+.I .monetdb
+file, set the variable
+.B DOTMONETDBFILE
+to the empty string in the environment.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 \fB\-\-help\fP (\fB\-?\fP)
@@ -64,4 +88,3 @@ and the server.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .IR mclient (1),
 .IR mserver5 (1)
-
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