Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> Tom just advised me via private e-mail that my termcap database may be
> the issue here. Looks like he was right. I did a "sudo aptitude
> reinstall ncurses-base", and now the tests pass against HEAD. (I
> probably should have tried to preserve things before going ahead with
> that, but that didn't happen -- I had no reason to think that the
> system was affected by any kind of corruption.)
Hm, well, HEAD still has the hackery with explicit accounting for
escape sequences. Could you try it with the patch I showed to unset
TERM and remove that stuff? (It won't apply exactly to HEAD, but
the diffs are simple enough, or you could revert to 60ab7c80b first.)
> I am very sorry for having wasted your time on this wild goose chase,
Don't worry about it --- even if it was some upgrade glitch, there
was no way to know that in advance.
regards, tom lane