| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Tim Joyce" <tim(at)hoop(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | "paneris administration" <administration(at)messageboards(dot)paneris(dot)org>, "Thomas Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, moray(dot)mcconnachie(at)computing-services(dot)oxford(dot)ac(dot)uk, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] psql trerminal behaviour |
| Date: | 1999-09-29 13:42:39 |
| Message-ID: | 3296.938612559@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Tim Joyce" <tim(at)hoop(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> i think that the postgres build should check more thoroughly that
> /usr/include/readline/*.h exists and not let you make with out it,
That cure would be a lot worse than the disease!
> as pgsql is quite unusable without arrow and del keys.
If you don't have readline installed, then you're not used to using it,
so I doubt you will consider psql "unusable" without it. Postgres is
already a pain to install; adding more required prerequisite packages
would make it worse...
regards, tom lane
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