Re: psql and readline

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Patrick Welche <prlw1(at)newn(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Mount <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql and readline
Date: 2003-02-16 23:05:20
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0302161512490.1618-100000@peter.localdomain
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Ross J. Reedstrom writes:

> O.K., I found the 'editline' wrapper around 'libedit' that provides
> a subset of readline functionality, and used that for testing. On my
> Debian Linux systems, editline installs readline compatability headers
> (readline.h, history.h) into /usr/include/editline/, so I added tests
> for those into configure.in, and src/include/pg_config.h.in, and usage
> in src/bin/psql/input.h

I don't think this is what we were out for. We've certainly been running
with libedit for a long time without anyone ever mentioning
/usr/include/editline. I suggest this part is taken out.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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