I just upgraded from postgres 7.x.x to 8.1.0 and am getting the following error from cmd-line psql:
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. Tom's reply (*) suggests a discrepancy in libraries on MacOSX. Nonetheless, I *seem* to have the intended functionality (readline history on the cmd-line), in spite of the error msg.
Questions:
- Is the error msg ignorable?
- Else, is there a post-compile fix for the problem?
- Does the correct lib exist on MacOSX? If so, is there doco on how to specify its use on compiling?
My platform:
MacOSX v10.4.2
PostgreSQL v8.1.0
Thanks in advance!
Scott
(*) [ from Tom Lane, via archives search ]
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()
