Re: Foreign character struggles

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:37:59AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tim Perdue <tim(at)perdue(dot)net> writes:
> > I compiled postgres with --enable-multibyte and --enable-recode, and it
> > doesn't appear to help with my problem.
>
> I think this is a locale issue, not a character set issue. You
> definitely need --enable-locale, but I doubt you need either of the
> above (unless you need to deal with Unicode or Far-Eastern languages).

I skipped --enable-locale because I feared I would have to dump/restore
all my databases and require re-testing the application. Is that unfounded?

> > Also, my "Up Arrow" and "Delete" keys no longer work since I recompiled 7.2.3
> > on debian.
>
> You are missing libreadline.

Thanks. libreadline is there, it just isn't being picked up by psql. Any
suggestions?

Tim Perdue