Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/17/2011 11:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>
> >> On 02/17/2011 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>> psql used to use the native Windows line editing ability --- has that
> >>> changed?
> >>
> >> When did it? Ad what "native" windows line editing ability are you
> >> referring to?
> > There is native Windows editing like arrows, etc and history, though the
> > history is not kept between sessions.  If windows is now using readline,
> > then odds are we are shipping libreadline to make that happen, and we
> > are then linking using a supplied GPL library (and we don't have the
> > OS-installed exception).  I hope I am wrong.
> 
> 
> Readline has always been disabled on Windows builds AFAIK. Just look at 
> the buildfarm traces. Here's an example from 
> <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_stage_log.pl?nm=frogmouth&dt=2011-02-17%2015%3A30%3A03&stg=configure>
> 
>     configure: WARNING: *** Readline does not work on MinGW --- disabling
> 
> 
> It's not used in MSVC either, IIRC.


OK, I was only responding to Stephen Frost who said psql did not behave
like other Windows apps.

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