Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage

On 02/17/2011 12:34 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> On 02/17/2011 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>> FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know
>>>> of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It can be build with readline and
>>>> works as expected.
>>> Uh, don't we have a psql built via MSVC? Doesn't it work interactively?
>>
>> Not if you want readline. And in my book that's a requirement of a psql
>> that's usable interactively. It's pretty horrible to use without it.
> Well, as horrible as other Windows apps. I will leave others to decide
> if that is usable. ;-) I am unclear if we would ship readline support
> on Windows even if we didn't have a license issue (no OS readline
> version on Windows).
>

Windows developers almost universally work from GUIs and not using
console apps (and that's true of many Unix developers also, particularly
those who can't recall a time when X-Windows wasn't almost universally
available). Microsoft has de-emphasized console apps for 15 years. So
the only people who are likely to be interested in using an enhanced
psql on Windows are old Unix-heads like you and me. It's not worth a lot
of effort, IMNSHO.

cheers

andrew