Re: "save history" problem

From: Michael Talbot-Wilson <mtw(at)view(dot)net(dot)au>
To: "David F(dot) Johnson" <dfjohnson(at)cabaret(dot)com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "save history" problem
Date: 2006-04-26 22:42:12
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.60.0604270807440.18448@calypso.view.net.au
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, David F. Johnson wrote:

> ...
> could not save history to file "/usr/local/pgsql//.psql_history": Unknown
> error: 0
> ...
>>> though I'm just now running it under Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.6). I'm guessing
>>> it's a Tiger issue but I don't know what to do about it.

This was answered by Tom Lane in the NOVICE list recently. The
problem is that X.4 uses a fake readline library. You need to
download and install the real GNU Readline, having eliminated the
readline > whatever symlink. Then recompile and reinstall
PostgreSQL.

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