Re: External psql editor

Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> writes:

On Mon, 2 May 2022, Reid Thompson wrote:

I believe that psql also uses readline, so my thought was that maybe these
instructions could enable you to map the 'move' keystrokes that you're
familiar with to be used while on the psql command line. A very quick test
seems to indicate that you can.

Nope. No difference.

Perhaps your psql is built against libedit rather than readline.
			regards, tom lane

That is easy enough to determine:

mgogala@umajor ~]$ ldd `which psql`
    linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffded951000)
    libpq.so.private13-5 => /lib64/libpq.so.private13-5 (0x00007ff145284000)
    libreadline.so.8 => /lib64/libreadline.so.8 (0x00007ff14522c000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff145150000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff144f49000)
    libssl.so.1.1 => /lib64/libssl.so.1.1 (0x00007ff144eac000)
    libcrypto.so.1.1 => /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x00007ff144bbe000)
    libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007ff144b65000)
    libldap_r-2.4.so.2 => /lib64/libldap_r-2.4.so.2 (0x00007ff144b09000)
    libtinfo.so.6 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007ff144ada000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff14539a000)
    libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff144ac0000)
    libkrb5.so.3 => /lib64/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00007ff1449e2000)
    libk5crypto.so.3 => /lib64/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00007ff1449ca000)
    libcom_err.so.2 => /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00007ff1449c1000)
    libkrb5support.so.0 => /lib64/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00007ff1449b0000)
    libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00007ff1449a9000)
    libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007ff144995000)
    liblber-2.4.so.2 => /lib64/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0x00007ff144982000)
    libsasl2.so.3 => /lib64/libsasl2.so.3 (0x00007ff144962000)
    libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x00007ff144935000)
    libcrypt.so.2 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.2 (0x00007ff1448fb000)
    libpcre2-8.so.0 => /lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0 (0x00007ff144864000)
[mgogala@umajor ~]$

Regards

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