| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, jd <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-11 20:26:54 |
| Message-ID: | 19069.1297456014@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> We have code that exists in both psql and the backend (cf src/port/)
>> so I'm not sure this really will satisfy the more rabid GPL partisans.
>> And this whole discussion is about satisfying the most rabid of them,
>> remember. I don't really think that anything other than "relicense all
>> of Postgres as GPL" will make them happy.
> Which, by the way, *no one* has the authority to do.
Right. So the long term solution in my mind is to migrate away from
readline and towards libedit. I'm just not sufficiently worried about
this to put any of my own cycles into making libedit good enough.
regards, tom lane
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