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authorNeil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>2005-06-10 16:26:59 +0000
committerNeil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>2005-06-10 16:26:59 +0000
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Minor cleanup of documentation for recently-added HISTFILE psql variable.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index 075225b6fb2..1b9a72829d5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.140 2005/06/10 15:34:25 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.141 2005/06/10 16:26:59 neilc Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -1991,13 +1991,12 @@ bar
<term><varname>HISTFILE</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- This variable contains the filename used to save the history.
- Its default value is <filename>~/.psql_history</filename>.
- For example, use:
+ The filename that will be used to store the history list. The default
+ value is <filename>~/.psql_history</filename>. For example, using:
<programlisting>
\set HISTFILE ~/.psql_history-:DBNAME
</programlisting>
- in your <filename>~/.psqlrc</filename> will get psql to
+ in <filename>~/.psqlrc</filename> will get <application>psql</application> to
maintain a separate history for each database.
</para>
<note>