It looks like I had readline 4.3 installed. I just
installed readline 5.0 - the F1-4 keys still cause
psql to segfault. (AFAIK I don't need to recompile
postgres for psql to use the newly installed
readline).
CSN
--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> writes:
> > I did 'strace psql dbname' and this was the output
> > after hitting F1:
>
> > read(0, "\33", 1) = 1
> > read(0, "O", 1) = 1
> > read(0, "P", 1) = 1
> > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>
> Hmm ... I don't have an F1 key, but I typed
> escape-O-P at a psql
> running under Linux, and got this:
>
> Process 28978 attached - interrupt to quit
> read(0, "\33", 1) = 1
> read(0, "O", 1) = 1
> read(0, "P", 1) = 1
> write(2, "\7", 1) = 1
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
> read(0,
>
> So it seems fine here. I'm wondering if there's
> something broken
> about your machine's readline library.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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