If both libedit and libreadline are available, we currently default to linking against libreadline, unless the "--with-libedit-preferred" configure option is used. Why do we default to preferring GNU readline over libedit?
libedit is clearly preferable for license reasons. You could make the argument that libedit is perhaps less stable than readline (although I'm not aware of any outstanding issues with it), but (a) we need to support libedit anyway, due to Darwin and NetBSD (b) if there are any issues with libedit, users can always specify "--without-libedit-preferred" (c) those users with both libraries installed are presumably at least somewhat satisfied with libedit. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match