From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: --with-libedit-preferred is bad design |
Date: | 2013-07-13 02:10:22 |
Message-ID: | 51E0B70E.10003@agliodbs.com |
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On 07/12/2013 06:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> I think the current --with-libedit-preferred should go away, and be
>> replaced by a --with-libedit option which throws an error if libedit
>> isn't found.
>
> I'm not sure that will work well on systems where libedit masquerades
> as readline...
Ah, was that the thinking behind that? In that case, maybe we could put
a warning in the config.log that libedit wasn't found? Right now,
there's nothing.
>
> TBH, given the number of bugs we've hit in libedit, encouraging its use
> isn't something we should put effort into anyway. Or is it just that
> Apple seems incapable of finding non-broken versions to ship?
That would hardly be only true of libedit, on Apple.
It's also broken on some Red Hat versions, last I checked.
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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