Tom Lane writes: > Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan@xxxxxxx> writes: >> I just upgraded from 8.0.4 to 8.1.0 this afternoon and the only thing >> "bad" I have noticed is that whenever I quit psql I get a message: >> could not save history to file "/Users/jerry/.psql_history": Invalid >> argument >> This is on MacOS X 10.4.3 > > The Postgres code in that area hasn't changed at all. input.c has: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- revision 1.45 date: 2005/06/10 15:40:41; author: momjian; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Use saveHistory so we get a nice error message on failure. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So, the error probably also occured in 8.0.4, but just wasn't reported at all. regards, Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster