Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > On 02/17/2011 11:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> > >> On 02/17/2011 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >>> psql used to use the native Windows line editing ability --- has that > >>> changed? > >> > >> When did it? Ad what "native" windows line editing ability are you > >> referring to? > > There is native Windows editing like arrows, etc and history, though the > > history is not kept between sessions. If windows is now using readline, > > then odds are we are shipping libreadline to make that happen, and we > > are then linking using a supplied GPL library (and we don't have the > > OS-installed exception). I hope I am wrong. > > > Readline has always been disabled on Windows builds AFAIK. Just look at > the buildfarm traces. Here's an example from > <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_stage_log.pl?nm=frogmouth&dt=2011-02-17%2015%3A30%3A03&stg=configure> > > configure: WARNING: *** Readline does not work on MinGW --- disabling > > > It's not used in MSVC either, IIRC.
OK, I was only responding to Stephen Frost who said psql did not behave like other Windows apps. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
