Re: BUG #16059: Tab-completion of filenames in COPY commands removes required quotes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, steven(dot)winfield(at)cantabcapital(dot)com
Subject: Re: BUG #16059: Tab-completion of filenames in COPY commands removes required quotes
Date: 2019-12-13 18:55:07
Message-ID: 17621.1576263307@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:52 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> I think it's Debian's problem, not ours, if that doesn't work. It is
>>> not unreasonable for a package to probe existence of a library function
>>> at configure time. It's up to them to make sure that the headers match
>>> the actual library.

>> That seems like an unhelpful attitude. Debian is a mainstream
>> platform, and no doubt feels that they have important reasons for what
>> they are doing.

Actually, this argument is based on a false premise anyhow. I took
a look into Debian's source package, and AFAICS they are not doing
anything as weird as a run-time substitution. They are just filling
the build environment with libedit-dev not libreadline-dev. So that
is certainly a supported configuration from our side, and if there
is any header-to-library discrepancy then it's just a simple bug
in the libedit package.

(Maybe at one time they were doing something weird; I didn't look
back further than the current sources for PG 12.)

regards, tom lane

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