=?utf-8?Q?Paul_F=C3=B6rster?= <paul.foers...@gmail.com> writes:
> the use of :HOST in psql containing the socket directory for local
> connections is pretty useless for us, so we set it to the hostname in a
> global psqlrc file:
> \set HOST `hostname -s`
> This works great when invoking psql on the command line. But if I perform a
> \c to connect to a different database in the database cluster, then :HOST
> gets reset to the socket directory. On the one hand, this makes sense, on the
> other, the global psqlrc file does not seem to be executed again, thus
> leaving :HOST in an unuable state for us:
AFAICS, psql is behaving as documented. Why are you trying to override
HOST like that, instead of just using some other variable?
regards, tom lane
