Re: Getting PSQL in Windows to support TAB/Autocomplete via modified readline...

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 4:58 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Kirk Wolak <wolakk(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > We have our team of Windows developers, leveraging PSQL. But honestly,
> > it feels crippled after using PSQL in Linux for any length of time. Losing
> > auto-complete sucks (multi-line query recall/editing is lost as well).
>
> > In researching this problem, it appears that the decision was made like
> > 17yrs ago, when windows did not have a realistic "terminal" type
> > interface. Assuming we target Windows 8.1 or higher, I believe this goes
> > away.
>
> It'd certainly be nice if we could use Readline on Windows. I do not
> think we want to buy into maintaining our own fork of Readline, if that's
> what you're trying to suggest. If it "just works" now, that'd be great.
> Otherwise, maybe you should be speaking to the Readline maintainers
> about what changes are needed in it?

FWIW, I've been using https://github.com/arangodb/linenoise-ng for
Linux and Windows,
but that's C++ and no longer supported (but worked well enough for me).

The main https://github.com/antirez/linenoise itself does not build
as-is on Windows still, I believe. --DD