Rick Robino writes: > psql starts up with readline support turned on by default. If readline/curses > is broken, this may show up at runtime as a pq_recvbuf error and a core dump. > psql isn't obvious about the relationship to readline, creating a mystery for > first-timers. > > Since it is readline, and it is on by default, just maybe that first-timer > might reconfigure turning "luxuries" off and psql will work. That looks like a rather unusual way to proceed. > The alternative is them finding that obscure scrap of advice (not in > doc/*) associating recvbuf errors with readline support. The other alternative is fixing the underlying problem. > I had this problem on a very typically setup Solaris but did not look for a > way to build w/o readline. Yes, we have had several reports that termcap and ncurses don't like each other on Solaris. I'm going to alter configure to check for only one of the two. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/
