Jeff Ross <jross@wykids.org> writes:
> Thanks for the hint, Greg! It was indeed the .psql_history file.
> Although I'm using the default history size, the file was over 5MB in
> size and full of a table dump. I truncated the file and no more delay
> quitting psql.
Huh ... what version of libreadline (or libedit) are you using exactly?
How did the large dump get in there?
regards, tom lane