On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Jonathan Jacobson <jon...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The .psql_history file is naturally used by different DB connections
> (distinguished by a different combination of host + port + database + user).
> At least in my multi-database working environment, this leads sometimes to
> frustration because there are commands that cannot or should not be used by
> different connections.
> To solve this, psql could keep a separate command history file for each
> connection.
> I will be happy to make this my first contribution to PostgreSQL's code.
> What do you say?
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>

That's settable with HISTFILE

\set HISTFILE ~/.psql_history- :DBNAME

There's also :PORT and a few other vars.

(example borrowed from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17924906/where-is-psql-client-history-kept-psql-history-non-existant
)

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