Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name> writes:
>> Libedit 20191025-3.1 is the first version where ":{?VERB<tab>" works as
>> expected. The previous release 20190324-3.1 still produces the escaped
>> output that Michael found. That narrows down the changes to everything
>> between [1] (changed on 2019-03-24 but not included in 20190324-3.1) and
>> [2] (both inclusive).
>
> Hm. I just installed NetBSD 8.2 in a VM, and it passes this test:
>
> # +++ tap install-check in src/bin/psql +++
> t/001_basic.pl ........... ok
> t/010_tab_completion.pl .. ok
> t/020_cancel.pl .......... ok
> All tests successful.
>
> So it seems like the bug does not exist in any currently-supported
> NetBSD release. Debian has been known to ship obsolete libedit
> versions, though.
Both the current (bokworm/12) and previous (bullseye/11) versions of
Debian have new enough libedits to not be affected by this bug:
libedit | 3.1-20181209-1 | oldoldstable | source
libedit | 3.1-20191231-2 | oldstable | source
libedit | 3.1-20221030-2 | stable | source
libedit | 3.1-20230828-1 | testing | source
libedit | 3.1-20230828-1 | unstable | source
libedit | 3.1-20230828-1 | unstable-debug | source
But in bullseye they decided that OpenSSL is a system library as far as
the GPL is concerned, so are linking directly to readline.
And even before then their psql wrapper would LD_PRELOAD readline
instead if installed, so approximately nobody actually ever used psql
with libedit on Debian.
> regards, tom lane
- ilmari