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? There have been enough different
versions of libreadline distributed that I wouldn't be surprised to find
out that our RPMs are not compatible with some of 'em. But I dunno
whether the RPMs are marked with sufficiently tight dependency info.
If you find that a newer libreadline fixes it, we'd like to know what
the old and new libreadline versions are ...
regards, tom lane