Re: bogus psql "could not save history file[...]" message in 9.3.6

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> Running ldd on the psql executable would be a good first step.
>
> > ​libedit.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libedit.so.2
> (0x00007f8b3af22000)
>
> Righto. So now, what version of libedit have you got? (On Red Hat
> "rpm -q libedit" would be the thing to do, but I have no idea about
> Ubuntu's package manager.)
>

​apt-cache showpkg libedit2

# 3.1-20130712-2
(us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubunut_dists_trusty_main_binary-amd64_Packages)

"Reverse Depends​"

​includes:

postgresql-client.9.3,libedit2 2.11-20080614 (same thing for 8.4 to 9.4)

David J.