"Martin Atukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/25/06, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please elaborate on "doesn't work".
> without any .psqlrc file I get the following error when quitting a psql > session: > could not save history to file "/Users/matlads/.psql_history": Invalid > argument That is fixed in CVS HEAD. The current coding looks like: /* * return value of write_history is not standardized across GNU * readline and libedit. Therefore, check for errno becoming set * to see if the write failed. */ errno = 0; (void) write_history(fname); if (errno == 0) return true; psql_error("could not save history to file \"%s\": %s\n", fname, strerror(errno)); > When I set HISTFILE to /dev/null I get the following: > could not save history to file "/dev/null": Operation not permitted Hm. ktrace shows this happening: 23279 psql CALL open(0x302d70,0x601,0x1b6) 23279 psql NAMI "/dev/null" 23279 psql RET open 3 23279 psql CALL fchmod(0x3,0x180) 23279 psql RET fchmod -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted 23279 psql CALL close(0x3) 23279 psql RET close 0 23279 psql CALL write(0x2,0xbffff180,0x44) 23279 psql GIO fd 2 wrote 68 bytes "could not save history to file "/dev/null": Operation not permitted " 23279 psql RET write 68/0x44 23279 psql CALL exit(0) There's probably no way to get Apple's libedit to not try the fchmod, so what do we want to do here? Maybe special-case the string "/dev/null"? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend