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. Maybe in this
build you linked against Apple's builtin libedit instead of libreadline?
libedit seems to have a bizarre definition of the result value from
write_history() :-(
regards, tom lane