Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > On 02/17/2011 11:58 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > 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. > > I think both of you have possibly been under a misapprehension. All this > discussion about the Windows installers is entirely irrelevant to this > thread, ISTM, since there is no readline use in them.
OK, that's what I thought. > FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know > of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It can be build with readline and > works as expected. Uh, don't we have a psql built via MSVC? Doesn't it work interactively? -- 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
