From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tim Joyce <tim@hoop.co.uk>
Cc: paneris administration <administration@messageboards.paneris.org>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: moray.mcconnachie@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] psql trerminal behaviour
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:42:39 -0400
Message-ID: <3296.938612559@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <028301bf09c5$a0cb0450$0501a8c0@noonoo>
"Tim Joyce" <tim@hoop.co.uk> writes:
> i think that the postgres build should check more thoroughly that
> /usr/include/readline/*.h exists and not let you make with out it,
That cure would be a lot worse than the disease!
> as pgsql is quite unusable without arrow and del keys.
If you don't have readline installed, then you're not used to using it,
so I doubt you will consider psql "unusable" without it. Postgres is
already a pain to install; adding more required prerequisite packages
would make it worse...
regards, tom lane
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