Re: BUG #10794: psql sometimes ignores .psqlrc

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
>>> While we're at it, we should fix the complaint about .psql_history being
>>> missing..  This isn't an error, imv:
>>> could not save history to file "/home/sfrost/.psql_history": No such file or directory

>> Eh?  I've not seen anything like that personally.  I seem to recall having
>> heard of it happening with broken readline or libedit versions, but we
>> don't have very much ability to work around bugs in those.

> Oh?  I get it every time I run psql w/o a .psql_history file on a stock
> Ubuntu system which certainly has a current libreadline installed..
> Will have to investigate a bit more.

FWIW, I just rechecked and verified I see no such misbehavior with RHEL6's
libreadline, nor with OS X 10.9.4's libedit.

            regards, tom lane