Package: postgresql-client-common Version: 59 Severity: normal Hi,
The psql wrappers provided by postgresql-client-common break the environment sensibility of the psql command line tool. (and possibly others.) The PostgreSQL documenation, as well as "man psql" state that one can set environment variables like PGDATABASE, PGHOST, PGPORT and PGUSER. This is handled low-level by libpq. However, the multi-cluster wrapper of psql does not honour those variables, but overrides them with its own defaults in the absence of command line parameters. This breaks scripts that rely on those settings. [~] -> export PGDATABASE=foobar [~] -> /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/psql -c "select current_database()" current_database ------------------ foobar (1 row) [~] -> psql -c "select current_database()" current_database ------------------ postgres (1 row) Thanks, Markus -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.3-fire Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages postgresql-client-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.3 Debian configuration management sy postgresql-client-common recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
