On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 3:03 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Please do.
>
> After looking closer at the code in pg_regress.c, I'm wondering a bit
> about PGSERVICE.  A setting for that might certainly bring in a value
> for the database name, but I don't think we can just summarily unset it.
> I don't plan to do anything about that right now, but conceivably it'd
> bite people someday.

At least there will be some breadcrumbs to follow in the archive.

> Another thing that looks a bit fishy here is that the set of variables
> that pg_regress.c unsets is very much smaller than the set that libpq
> reacts to --- we have added a ton of the latter without touching this
> list (much less the three or four other places that duplicate it).
> I wonder how problematic that is.

Only time will tell, I suspect.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan


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