Michael Owens <mikeowens@gmail.com> writes:
> Yeah, that was it. I started to look into that after you last email
> and discovered that I had libedit installed. I was tinkering around
> with it a few weeks back. I just unmerged libedit and got it off my
> system. As soon as I tried to shutdown PG, pg_ctl complained about the
> missing libedit library. I rebuilt PG, which this time did not use
> libedit, rather readline, and it worked fine.
Interesting. Either your libedit installation was broken (not entirely
unlikely on Gentoo, which is way too bleeding-edge for my tastes ;-))
or there is some bit-rot in our support for libedit. The latter seems
possible since AFAIK the vast majority of PG users use readline.
Can any libedit users confirm it still works with PG current??
regards, tom lane