On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:26:07AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rasputin <rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes:
> > In this case, disabling readline starts up the client OK.
>
> > I'll try upgrading readline on this system ,and see what happens.
>
> I was just going to suggest that. Did you compile Postgres from source,
> or is this an assemblage of RPMs?
Oh, nooo. I learnt *that* lesson long ago....
This was a build from source, latest stable 7.0.3 (?)
> If you find that a newer libreadline fixes it, we'd like to know what
> the old and new libreadline versions are ...
It did.
The offender was readline-4.0.1
(to be fair I don't think it's the default on 6.1 - STR upgrading it to
fix *another* bug while installing gnome-1.2)
Installing 4.1 fixed it.
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Rasputin
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