this is logical flaw in PostgreSQL's psql include file (input.h). I
wrote, but have been told it was ok, and nobody wanted to change it.
Personally i patch every version of PostgreSQL by hand to get readline
edit mode working. Yeah, that sucks...
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:32:37AM -0400, Frank Bax wrote:
> I have a machine with OpenBSD 2.6 and PSQL 6.5.3 that allows the use of
> up-arrow to retreive/edit previous commands.
>
> I recently built a new machine with OpenBSD 2.8 and PSQL 7.0.2 (from
> package) and this feature is GONE!
>
> Is there some way to get this functionality back (hopefully without
> changing a compile-time option and compiling from source)?
>
> Frank
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