Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> Since quite a few people seem to bump into this, I wonder if we could
> have configure to test for this?
Probably not worth the trouble, seeing that Apple has finally fixed
the problem in 10.5 --- not tested by me, but a look at their source code
on-line shows it's fixed:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5/libedit-11/libedit/src/history.c
regards, tom lane