On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw@view.net.au> writes:
>> I have installed PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on Macintosh OS X.4. I'm seeing
>> this:
>
>> protoaddress=# \q
>> could not save history to file "/Users/qdu/.psql_history": Unknown
>> error: 0
>
> Yeah, the libedit included in Darwin is almost but not quite compatible
> with libreadline. Best bet really is to grab a copy of readline and
> rebuild psql with that. (We've been looking at ways to handle Darwin's
Thanks. I didn't realise that I didn't have it. I checked. But now
I check more closely I see that libreadline.dylib@ -> libedit.dylib.
