Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] psql 'none' as a HISTFILE special case

2006-08-25 Thread Martin Atukunda
On 8/21/06, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:27 +0300, Martin Atukunda wrote: If readline is used by psql, a history file is automatically used. This patch adds the special file name 'none', which if set

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] psql 'none' as a HISTFILE special case

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 17:03 schrieb Martin Atukunda: hmm, setting HISTFILE to /dev/null doesn't work on my MacOSX here. Please elaborate on doesn't work. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] psql 'none' as a HISTFILE special case

2006-08-25 Thread Martin Atukunda
On 8/25/06, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 17:03 schrieb Martin Atukunda: hmm, setting HISTFILE to /dev/null doesn't work on my MacOSX here. Please elaborate on doesn't work. without any .psqlrc file I get the following error when quitting a psql

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] psql 'none' as a HISTFILE special case

2006-08-25 Thread Tom Lane
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

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] psql 'none' as a HISTFILE special case

2006-08-25 Thread Martin Atukunda
On 8/25/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] psql 'none' as a HISTFILE special case

2006-08-25 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Atukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/25/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? If this is OK, I can up with a patch that special cases

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] psql 'none' as a HISTFILE special case

2006-08-25 Thread Martin Atukunda
On 8/25/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Atukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/25/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? If this is

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] psql 'none' as a HISTFILE special case

2006-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:27 +0300, Martin Atukunda wrote: If readline is used by psql, a history file is automatically used. This patch adds the special file name 'none', which if set as the HISTFILE parameter, will cause psql not to use the history file.

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] psql 'none' as a HISTFILE special case

2006-08-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:27 +0300, Martin Atukunda wrote: If readline is used by psql, a history file is automatically used. This patch adds the special file name 'none', which if set as the HISTFILE parameter, will cause psql not to