OK. Thanks!
Scott
On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Frankel <leknarf@pacbell.net> writes:
>
>> [ Mac OS X ]
>> could not save history to file "<my_home_dir>/.psql_history":
>> Invalid argument
>>
>
>
>> Searching the archives, I found a thread about this error wherein the
>> poster "solved" the problem by commenting out the reporting code in
>> the source file.
>>
>
> If you look back further, there is more discussion of this several
> months back. It seems that libedit and libreadline are not compatible
> about how write_history() reports errors. We haven't figured out a
> nice solution for this yet.
>
>
>> - Is the error msg ignorable?
>>
>
> Pretty much.
>
>
>> - Does the correct lib exist on MacOSX?
>>
>
> You can grab libreadline and install it into /usr/local, or use the
> version from Fink.
>
> regards, tom lane
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