| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)debian(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian readline/libedit breakage |
| Date: | 2011-02-17 17:34:39 |
| Message-ID: | 201102171734.p1HHYd308717@momjian.us |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> On 02/17/2011 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >> FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know
> >> of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It can be build with readline and
> >> works as expected.
> > Uh, don't we have a psql built via MSVC? Doesn't it work interactively?
>
>
> Not if you want readline. And in my book that's a requirement of a psql
> that's usable interactively. It's pretty horrible to use without it.
Well, as horrible as other Windows apps. I will leave others to decide
if that is usable. ;-) I am unclear if we would ship readline support
on Windows even if we didn't have a license issue (no OS readline
version on Windows).
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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