Hi, Late last year I posted some patches for psql but they were deferred pending the release of 8.2. However, they are not in the patch queue so I thought I'd bring them up again now the release is done.
1. Dealing with a buggy readline on some platforms w.r.t. --as-needed. The serious arguments for --as-needed have gone now we exclude various libs from the main postgres binary. However, the other executables still include a lot more libs than necessary. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01364.php 2. Handling Ctrl-C pressed while running an external pager. This bug still irritates me from time to time so it would be nice to fix it for once and for all. Not to meantion the memory and file descriptor leaks caused by the current code. However, the tree has deviated significantly since that patch was posted. I have prepared a version against HEAD if people are still interested. The details are in this message: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-10/msg00194.php The only change from that is that I've now also removed paging support from the following programs: createdb, createlang, createuser, dropdb, droplang, dropuser, clusterdb, vacuumdb, reindexdb. In so far as it's not clear how much they used the paging support anyway, keeping it would require setting up of the signal handlers the same way psql does since the code is shared. I figured it wasn't worth it. The new patch is here but can be posted to -patches if there is sufficient interest: http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/psql-ctrlc2.patch Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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