From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Rick Robino <rrobino(at)wavedivision(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] configure.in patch for readline and curses. |
Date: | 2001-02-06 18:30:53 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0102061925100.775-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Rick Robino writes:
> psql starts up with readline support turned on by default. If readline/curses
> is broken, this may show up at runtime as a pq_recvbuf error and a core dump.
> psql isn't obvious about the relationship to readline, creating a mystery for
> first-timers.
>
> Since it is readline, and it is on by default, just maybe that first-timer
> might reconfigure turning "luxuries" off and psql will work.
That looks like a rather unusual way to proceed.
> The alternative is them finding that obscure scrap of advice (not in
> doc/*) associating recvbuf errors with readline support.
The other alternative is fixing the underlying problem.
> I had this problem on a very typically setup Solaris but did not look for a
> way to build w/o readline.
Yes, we have had several reports that termcap and ncurses don't like each
other on Solaris. I'm going to alter configure to check for only one of
the two.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/
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