Re: .psql_history": No such file - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: .psql_history": No such file
Date
Msg-id 200906261814.59148.guillaume@lelarge.info
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In response to .psql_history": No such file  (ivan marchesini <marchesini@unipg.it>)
Responses Re: .psql_history": No such file
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Hi Ivan,

Le vendredi 26 juin 2009 à 17:53:15, ivan marchesini a écrit :
> [...]
> I have installed a postgres db using a datadir different
> from /var/lib/pgsql/.psql_history.
>
> then:
>    su postgres
>    psql postgres
>
> All went fine but when I exit from psql from a db I obtain:
> _______
> could not save history to file "/var/lib/pgsql/.psql_history": No such
> file or directory
> _______
>
> how can I fix this problem? where can I say psql that it must
> write .psql_history into the datadir?
>

psql tries to write there because the home directory of the postgres user is
/var/lib/postgres. Probably better to use HISTFILE to change it (\set HISTFILE
'/path/to/histfile').

Regards.


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