Re: psql error on quitting... - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: psql error on quitting...
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Msg-id 11029.1131506573@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to psql error on quitting...  (Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan@eku.edu>)
Responses Re: psql error on quitting...  (Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+pg@gate450.dyndns.org>)
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Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan@eku.edu> writes:
> I just upgraded from 8.0.4 to 8.1.0 this afternoon and the only thing
> "bad" I have noticed is that whenever I quit psql I get a message:
> could not save history to file "/Users/jerry/.psql_history": Invalid
> argument
> This is on MacOS X 10.4.3

The Postgres code in that area hasn't changed at all.  Maybe in this
build you linked against Apple's builtin libedit instead of libreadline?
libedit seems to have a bizarre definition of the result value from
write_history() :-(

            regards, tom lane

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