Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Seneca Cunningham <scunning(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Should libedit be preferred to libreadline?
Date: 2005-12-02 08:28:19
Message-ID: 200512020928.20375.peter_e@gmx.net
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I trimmed it down to:
>
> --with-bonjour build with Bonjour support
> --with-openssl build with OpenSSL support
> --with-prefer-libedit prefer libedit over readline
> --without-readline do not use Readline
> --without-zlib do not use Zlib

I'm concerned that this still gives nondeterministic behavior. There's
no way to say, "I want readline, period" or "I want libedit, period".
I'd prefer simple --with-readline and --with-libedit, giving one turns
off the other, giving both is an error.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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