| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | "David F(dot) Johnson" <dfjohnson(at)cabaret(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: "save history" problem |
| Date: | 2006-04-24 17:59:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20060424175917.GC2747@svana.org |
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On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:33:40PM -0400, David F. Johnson wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Any ideas on how to resolve this problem:
<snip>
> test=# \q
> could not save history to file "/usr/local/pgsql//.psql_history": Permission
> denied
I don't know about the platform, but shouldn't that refer to your home
directory?
> Other installations of stable releases of 8.x.x did not have this problem,
> 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.
Something like: \set HISTFILE 'blah' should do it, check the docs.
> That said, shouldn't
> /usr/local/pgsql//.psql_history
> be
> /usr/local/pgsql/.psql_history
There's no difference (semantically) between the two...
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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