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() |
