Re: [PATCHES] psql 'none' as a HISTFILE special case - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

"Martin Atukunda" <matlads@gmail.com> writes:
> On 8/25/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> There's probably no way to get Apple's libedit to not try the fchmod,
>> so what do we want to do here?  Maybe special-case the string
>> "/dev/null"?

> If this is OK, I can up with a patch that special cases /dev/null as a
> HISTFILE if libedit is found.

I was thinking of basically a one-liner addition to write_history
to skip the whole thing if strcmp(fname, DEVNULL) == 0.  Should be
reasonably inoffensive on anyone's machine.

            regards, tom lane