Postgres SQL (Amazon Redshift) Run Commands on Startup

Question

I have a set of commands that I run every time I login into psql. How can I run these commands automatically on psql startup?

The commands include:

\timing
set search_path=public,latitude;

Redshift uses psql (8.4.18, server 8.0.2)

Answer 1

psql has a .psqlrc file for just this purpose.

See the relevant PostgreSQL manual, which discusses the .psqlrc. It's unlikely that Amazon has changed this.