On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > I noticed the 9.1 release notes claim that the new > EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH thing is an environment variable, whereas it is > actually a psql variable. > > This is perhaps sort of a Freudian slip. Since the editor itself is > configured using an environment variable, shouldn't any configuration > about the editor also be an environment variable, so people can > configure them together?
It's probably the result of drift between the original patch and what was eventually committed. IIRC, Pavel had it as an environment variable originally, but Tom and I didn't feel the feature was important enough to merit that treatment. > Another thought is that this whole thing could be done away with if we > just allowed people to pass through arbitrary options to the editor, > like > > \edit file.sql +50 -a -b -c > > For powerusers, this could have interesting possibilities. That's an intriguing possibility. But part of the point of the original feature was to be able to say: \ef somefunc 10 ...and end up on line 10 of somefunc, perhaps in response to an error message complaining about that line. I don't think your proposal would address that. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
