Re: psql error on quitting...

Tom was right, on the Mac libreadline is linked to libedit.

My "solution" was to comment out the line reporting the
error in the program "input.c"

Jerry

On Nov 9, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Andreas Seltenreich wrote:

> Tom Lane writes:
>
>> Jerry LeVan <jerry(dot)levan(at)eku(dot)edu> 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