Re: psql on Windows systems

I think it's a good idea to provide the readline support in the community
Windows installer.

On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 10:51 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 20:47 +0200, Holger Jakobs wrote:
> > > Holger Jakobs <holger(at)jakobs(dot)com> writes:
> > > > Recently I had to use PostgreSQL on a Windows based system, and I
> was
> > > > surprised that the psql tool behaves differently, when it comes to
> the
> > > > functionality of the readline library.
> >
> > The page https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html says:
> >
> > "Microsoft offers its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as an
> installable add-on
> > for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It's basically a separate packaged
> version of
> > the Linux kernel that runs as a Windows service, and you can build and
> install
> > readline-8.2 within that environment." Maybe it works when the machine
> doing
> > the compiling and packaging has WSL installed. Would be worth trying,
> imho.
>
> Yes, it should be simple to build "psql" with readline in that
> environment, so
> I recommend that you do that.
>
> I guess the Windows binaries don't want to require the users to install
> Microsoft's Linux emulation. After all, if you do that, you might as well
> use the ready-made Linux binaries.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>
>
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