Re: save history error, ignorable?

Scott Frankel <leknarf(at)pacbell(dot)net> writes:
> [ Mac OS X ]
> could not save history to file "<my_home_dir>/.psql_history":
> Invalid argument

> Searching the archives, I found a thread about this error wherein the
> poster "solved" the problem by commenting out the reporting code in
> the source file.

If you look back further, there is more discussion of this several
months back. It seems that libedit and libreadline are not compatible
about how write_history() reports errors. We haven't figured out a
nice solution for this yet.

> - Is the error msg ignorable?

Pretty much.

> - Does the correct lib exist on MacOSX?

You can grab libreadline and install it into /usr/local, or use the
version from Fink.

regards, tom lane