I have two identical Dell Dimension 8400's running the exact same
versions of Gentoo Linux, running the same build for PG 8.0 Beta 5.
One box works fine. The other, no matter what I do, eventually runs
into what appears to be an infinite loop trying to connect to the
postmaster. It virtually brings
This problem seems to be related to the .psql_history file. If I
delete the file, the problem does not occur and psql starts up fine.
However, when I run psql again (after the previous session had
generated a .psql_history file), the problem occurs. strace shows
something like
read(4, "", 131072)
