On 2020-Jun-11, Tom Lane wrote: > I'm finding it hard to see a compelling reason why that would be an > improvement. It would make psql randomly different from 95% of the > other programs that have similar config files. Or, if everybody > somehow got on board with "let's put config files in ~/.config/", > then there'd be clutter in that directory ... and we're back to > square one. Actually, they do: this has been kind-of standardized by freedesktop as XDG_CONFIG_HOME -- see https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html My own ~/.config has 84 subdirs and files. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
