Hi Thom: thank you for your reply; I can't figure this one out! Per your reply:
[victoria@victoria ~]$ pg [sudo -u postgres -i] [sudo] password for victoria: [postgres@victoria ~]$ psql -a psql (9.6.3) Type "help" for help. postgres=# \q [postgres@victoria ~]$ psql -af ~/.psqlrc /var/lib/postgres/.psqlrc: No such file or directory [postgres@victoria ~]$ exit logout [victoria@victoria ~]$ So, it appears that postgres is looking for the .psqlrc file there (does not exist), but ignoring my ~/.psqlrc file, right? Edit: from that, it appears that postgres thinks that my home directory is /var/lib/postgres/. ... Confirmed: [postgres@victoria ~]$ echo $HOME /var/lib/postgres As a simple solution, I can sudo symlink MY ~/.psqlrc to that directory (/var/...; changing ownership also to postgres), but there appears to be some underlying issue, as Pg should find ~/.psqlrc, correct? FYI, I installed postgresql (Arch Linux) using the "pacman" package manager; the only significant change I made is to define a custom data directory, on my home partition. ---------------------------------------- From: "Thom Brown-2 [via PostgreSQL]" <ml+s1045698n5971968...@n3.nabble.com> Subject: Re: ~/.psqlrc file is ignored Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:31:49 -0700 (MST) Do you get anything with "psql -a"? If not, what do you get when you use "psql -af ~/.psqlrc" ? Thom -- View this message in context: http://www.postgresql-archive.org/psqlrc-file-is-ignored-tp5971773p5971973.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
