>Magnus Hagander wrote: >> Ok, then we're testing completely different things. I'm talking about >> the psql client when running under CMD.EXE, *not* in the msys shell. >> (backslash works fine in the bash shell) > >OK, I'll try that later. As an additional data point, running sh.exe >from within cmd.exe also gives a functional readline environment. So >either there are local difficulties with some people, or psql is not >using readline as well as it could. In any case, there is still hope >for readline on Windows.
Right. sh does work for me. Just for reference, what features are we losing without readline. Tab completion, but what more? //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match