On 10/05/10 10:35, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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
>
According to the README in the source, this is "Gnu Readline library,
version 4.3.".
I'm not sure how the dump got in there. I have a table of US Cities,
Zip Codes and lat/long data in one of the databases and the contents of
that table were in the history file twice.
Jeff