repl: fix flaky test-repl-programmatic-history #3058

Job	Run time
Build slim tarball	1m 40s
aarch64-darwin: with shared libraries	1h 19m 53s
aarch64-linux: with shared libraries	1h 26m 9s
x86_64-linux: with shared libraries	56m 38s
x86_64-darwin: with shared libraries	1h 13m 53s
	4h 58m 13s

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