Jeremy Buchmann <jeremy(at)wellsgaming(dot)com> writes:
> ... Readline is available, and this may be the way to go if you
> can't get readline to compile on its own.
There isn't anything difficult about installing readline from source
on Panther. Untar, configure, make, sudo make install.
Alternatively you can just configure postgres --without-readline.
psql is a lot less pleasant to use without it, but if you don't
use psql much you may not care.
regards, tom lane