Re: Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)

I now have "libreadline.a" in /usr/local/lib. Assuming that's the goal,
would you be kind enough to walk me through the next step -- linking that
lib to psql?

bryan

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Bryan Hughes <huuuze(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Prior to updating my Snow Leopard Mac to OSX Lion (10.7.3), I was able to
> > open psql from a terminal and then use "tab complete" to auto-complete
> > table or field names (i.e., "select * from [TAB -- list of table
> names]").
> > Unfortunately, something appears to have changed and tab complete now
> does
> > nothing.
>
> > Does anyone know of a fix for this problem?
>
> Apple broke this (again, or should I say worse) in their Lion update of
> libedit. There's discussion of that in the PG archives. On track
> record so far, nothing will be done about it before Mountain Lion, and
> that version will have an all-new set of bugs instead.
>
> If you're using psql to any significant extent on OS X, I'd recommend
> installing GNU libreadline and then building a copy of psql linked to
> that.
>
> (Note: /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib is *not* GNU readline, despite the
> name; it's merely a symlink to libedit.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>