Re: readline help

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> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Richard Huxton
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 20:18
> To: Williams, Travis L, NPONS; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] readline help
>
>
> On Wednesday 13 Nov 2002 5:49 pm, Williams, Travis L, NPONS wrote:
> > I know that this has been talked about to death.. but I'm assuming I
> > installed postgres without readline because I don't have any
> histroy type
> > stuff is psql.. how hard is this to fix?  The DB isn't in production yet
> > and I'd rather fix it before it goes..  Is there anything I can
> do to make
> > psql any friendlier?
>
> Assuming you're on a linux system, just make sure you've got the
> readline /
> readline-dev packages installed and ./configure again, make - PG
> should pick
> it up.

Well, make sure you have the readline *AND* the ncurse development package
installed !!! I spent an entire evening trying to figure out why I couldn't
get the readline support in PSQL until I discovered - through poking in the
configuration script itself - that you also need the ncurse developement
package (there are one or two alternative to ncurse, but I don't remember
which).

Hope this helps ;-)

>
> You might want to setup phpPgAdmin (apache+php) or pgadmin
> (windows) clients -
> gives you a non-command line view of your databases.
>
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>   Richard Huxton
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