Re: HISTIGNORE for psql

Hello,

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Pavel Stehule wrote:

> 2017-08-17 9:23 GMT+02:00 Vesa-Matti J Kari <vmkari(at)cc(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>:
>
> Bash has HISTIGNORE feature that allows you to exclude certain commands
> from the command history (e.g. shutdown, reboot, rm *).
>
> Would it make any sense to add such a feature to psql (e.g. to ignore
> DROP, DELETE commands)?
>
>
> It is not bad idea.

A quick patch is attached. Not sure about the quality, hacked this
together in about four hours, trying to figure out how to do it correctly
the PostgreSQL way.

Based on a few tests, the patch seems to work.

I do not know how the Bash implementation works, but I chose to disallow
forms such as:

:
:a
a:
a::b

So specifying empty strings seems like a syntax error to me. But I do
not know how to report failures for those, the current patch disallows
them and HISTIGNORE simply does not work with invalid syntax.

Regards,
vmk
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