Re: Re: psotgresql history function

From: bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net
To: Merlijn van der Mee <M(dot)vanderMee(at)amc(dot)uva(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: psotgresql history function
Date: 2000-07-27 13:55:48
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10007270953170.20726-100000@chapelperilous.net
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Merlijn van der Mee wrote:

> I had that same problem on Solaris, Irix and HP-unix.
>
> It seems that Linux is the only platform that has a nice history
> in psql.

No, you need to get the GNU readline library to get that functionality.
Then you'll have to rebuild Postgres (the configure script should properly
detect whether or not readline is available).

Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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