Tom Lane wrote: > Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:27 +0300, Martin Atukunda wrote: > >> If readline is used by psql, a history file is automatically used. > >> This patch adds the special file name 'none', which if set as the > >> HISTFILE parameter, will cause psql not to use the history file. > > > I think it would be cleaner to use a separate \set variable to control > > whether a history file is written, rather than needlessly overloading > > the meaning of HISTFILE. > > Why is this useful at all? There's already the -n (don't use readline) > switch.
Seems he wants readline without history, perhaps for security. Doesn't setting HISTFILE to /dev/null work? -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
