Andrew Perrin writes:

> I inadvertantly compiled pg 7.0.3 without gnu readline installed, so I now
> don't have access to lots of the nice command-line utilities it would have
> conveyed. Is there any way to add in the functionality now, or do I need
> to recompile?

Need to recompile.

> If I need to recompile, how can I do so without wiping out
> existing data?

Just don't wipe it out.  You can use the new executable with existing
data.  In fact you only need to recompile psql (src/bin/psql) after
re-configuring, not the postmaster.

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Peter Eisentraut      [EMAIL PROTECTED]       http://yi.org/peter-e/


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