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Clean up psql's behavior for a few more control variables.

Modify FETCH_COUNT to always have a defined value, like other control
variables, mainly so it will always appear in "\set" output.

Add hooks to force HISTSIZE to be defined and require it to have an
integer value.  (I don't see any point in allowing it to be set to
non-integral values.)

Add hooks to force IGNOREEOF to be defined and require it to have an
integer value.  Unlike the other cases, here we're trying to be
bug-compatible with a rather bogus externally-defined behavior, so I think
we need to continue to allow "\set IGNOREEOF whatever".  Fix it so that
the substitution hook silently replace non-numeric values with "10",
so that the stored value always reflects what we're really doing.

Add a dummy assign hook for HISTFILE, just so it's always in
variables.c's list.  We can't require it to be defined always, because
that would break the interaction with the PSQL_HISTORY environment
variable, so there isn't any change in visible behavior here.

Remove tab-complete.c's private list of known variable names, since that's
really a maintenance nuisance.  Given the preceding changes, there are no
control variables it won't show anyway.  This does mean that if for some
reason you've unset one of the status variables (DBNAME, HOST, etc), that
variable would not appear in tab completion for \set.  But I think that's
fine, for at least two reasons: we shouldn't be encouraging people to use
those variables as regular variables, and if someone does do so anyway,
why shouldn't it act just like a regular variable?

Remove ugly and no-longer-used-anywhere GetVariableNum().  In general,
future additions of integer-valued control variables should follow the
paradigm of adding an assign hook using ParseVariableNum(), so there's
no reason to expect we'd need this again later.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17516.1485973973@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane
2017-02-02 20:16:17 -05:00
parent 8ac0365c22
commit fd6cd69803
9 changed files with 90 additions and 80 deletions

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fail after having already displayed some rows.
</para>
<para>
<varname>FETCH_COUNT</varname> is ignored if it is unset or does not
have a positive value. It cannot be set to a value that is not
syntactically an integer.
</para>
<tip>
<para>
Although you can use any output format with this feature,
@ -3316,10 +3310,8 @@ bar
<term><varname>HISTSIZE</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The maximum number of commands to store in the command history.
If unset, at most 500 commands are stored by default.
If set to a value that is negative or not an integer, no limit is
applied.
The maximum number of commands to store in the command history
(default 500). If set to a negative value, no limit is applied.
</para>
<note>
<para>
@ -3345,13 +3337,13 @@ bar
<term><varname>IGNOREEOF</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If unset, sending an <acronym>EOF</> character (usually
If set to 1 or less, sending an <acronym>EOF</> character (usually
<keycombo action="simul"><keycap>Control</><keycap>D</></>)
to an interactive session of <application>psql</application>
will terminate the application. If set to a numeric value,
that many <acronym>EOF</> characters are ignored before the
application terminates. If the variable is set but not to a
numeric value, the default is 10.
will terminate the application. If set to a larger numeric value,
that many consecutive <acronym>EOF</> characters must be typed to
make an interactive session terminate. If the variable is set to a
non-numeric value, it is interpreted as 10.
</para>
<note>
<para>