history_file directive ignored in ini

[thorstenkampe]

The history_file directive in the ini file is ignored. Litecli always writes to the default location.

[amjith]

There is no history_file directive in the ini file. It always writes to ~/.config/litecli/history.

I've tried to reduce this number of knobs of configure. Can you tell me what use case you're trying to address with this?

[thorstenkampe]

You are correct. Mycli and Litcli don't support that directive while pgcli and mssql-cli do. I'm using a single ini for all four dbcli applications so I got misled.

There were two use cases:

1. a single history file for all four dbcli shells I use. Since there are a few but significant syntax differences in the respective SQL dialects that turned out to be not useful.
2. a "portable" location for my history so I can take it with me an don't leave traces in the host (portable meaning on a USB thumb drive). That's less of an issue as it used to be.

The main issue is probably that I would wish that the dbcli shells would be more similar. From what I can see there are already two kinds of dbcli apps: the \n ones (pgcli and mssql-cli) and the \f ones (litecli and mycli). One uses named queries, the other one favorite queries, etc.

Please feel free to close this issue.