> On 27 Jul 2015, at 10:18pm, Zsb?n Ambrus <ambrus at math.bme.hu> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Simon Slavin <slavins at bigfraud.org> wrote: >> On 27 Jul 2015, at 8:03pm, Zsb?n Ambrus <ambrus at math.bme.hu> wrote: >> I tried this once a couple of years ago, and both platforms use whatever the >> expected variable name was for that OS. In other words, a native programmer >> to that OS would get whatever behaviour they expected. > > Hopefully that means TMPDIR on unix and TEMP on windows, which seem to > be the most widely used environment variables for this. > > [snip] > > From the source code, it seems that for at least some operations, > sqlite3 checks the following environment variables: SQLITE_TMPDIR, > TMPDIR, TMP, TEMP, USERPROFILE.
Sorry, I got a detail wrong. I tested Mac, Windows and Linux, not Unix. On all platforms I checked to see that changing the expected documented environment variable had the right effect. I didn't test what happened if you changed another variable. Simon.
