Re: Windows v readline

2020-01-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2019-12-30 14:28, Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut writes: On 2019-09-29 22:55, Andrew Dunstan wrote: It would certainly be nice to have readline-enabled psql on Windows if possible. I tried this out. First, it doesn't build, because readline doesn't do the dllimport/dllexport dance on

Re: Windows v readline

2019-12-30 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > On 2019-09-29 22:55, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> It would certainly be nice to have readline-enabled psql on Windows if >> possible. > I tried this out. First, it doesn't build, because readline doesn't do > the dllimport/dllexport dance on global variables, so all

Re: Windows v readline

2019-12-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2019-09-29 22:55, Andrew Dunstan wrote: The configure code currently has this: # readline on MinGW has problems with backslashes in psql and other bugs. # This is particularly a problem with non-US code pages. # Therefore disable its use until we understand the cause. 2004-07-20 if test

Windows v readline

2019-09-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
The configure code currently has this: # readline on MinGW has problems with backslashes in psql and other bugs. # This is particularly a problem with non-US code pages. # Therefore disable its use until we understand the cause. 2004-07-20 if test "$PORTNAME" = "win32"; then   if test