Re: YA readline 4.2 patch

Tom,

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:46:14PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jason Tishler <Jason(dot)Tishler(at)dothill(dot)com> writes:
> > The attached patch enables PostgreSQL CVS to build cleanly under Cygwin
> > when built against readline 4.2.
>
> I'm confused. The current code already builds cleanly against readline
> 4.2. Why do we need to change it?

For the following reasons:

1. The current code does *not* build cleanly against readline 4.2
under Cygwin.

2. The current code is using a deprecate function,
filename_completion_function(), which as of readline 4.2, is no longer
declared in readline.h:

#if 0
/* Backwards compatibility (compat.c). These will go away sometime. */
...
extern READLINE_EXPORT(char, *filename_completion_function) ...
#endif

This is why it is (locally) declared on line 63 of
src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c.

3. Peter has already committed changes to CVS to handle
completion_matches() in exactly the same way.

4. Sometime in the future (readline 4.3?), this will have to be dealt
with when filename_completion_function() is finally removed from readline.

Jason

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