From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Mark Fenbers <Mark.Fenbers@noaa.gov>
Cc: PostgreSQL - SQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Change date format through an environmental variable?
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 00:33:31 -0700
Message-ID: <20060302073331.GA87268@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22254.1141280207@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:16:47AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> > The libpq documentation has a list of environment variables, although
> > it's not complete:
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/libpq-envars.html
>
> Er, what's not complete about it? Feel free to send a doc patch ...
Missing from that page are mostly standard variables that aren't
specific to PostgreSQL but that applications like psql might use.
Documented elsewhere are:
EDITOR (psql)
PAGER (psql)
PGDATA (various)
PSQL_EDITOR (psql)
SHELL (psql)
TMPDIR (psql)
TZ (postmaster)
VISUAL (psql)
I see LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE in a few places but not in the
documentation for postgres/postmaster, which is where they appear
to be used (backend/main/main.c). Should those pages mention them?
A couple of variables are used in the code but aren't mentioned in
the documentation. Are they worth documenting?
COMSPEC (psql, Win32 only)
PG_DBPATH (ecpg, Informix mode)
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Michael Fuhr
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