Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:27 +0300, Martin Atukunda wrote:
>> If readline is used by psql, a history file is automatically used.
>> This patch adds the special file name 'none', which if set as the
>> HISTFILE parameter, will cause psql not to use the history file.
> I think it would be cleaner to use a separate \set variable to control
> whether a history file is written, rather than needlessly overloading
> the meaning of HISTFILE.
Why is this useful at all? There's already the -n (don't use readline)
switch.
regards, tom lane
