Mary Sipple wrote: > We have a script wrapper for psql which reads a configuration file and > constructs a psql command to connect to the configured instance of postgres. > We would like to include a search_path setting in the configuraration file > and have the wrapper use that to set the search_path for the psql session. I > tried using the -v flag (-vsearch_path=xxxx) with the psql command but that > did not work: > > > psql -h$SOCKET -U$USER -p$PORT -vsearch_path=$SCHEMAS $DBNAME This should work: export PGOPTIONS="-c search_path=$SCHEMAS" psql -h$SOCKET -U$USER -p$PORT $DBNAME -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general