On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Actually, what I should have asked is "are you running Lion?".
> Because with libedit on Lion, tab completion is 100% broken, as per
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-07/msg01642.php
> This is just the latest installment in a long and sad story of
> libedit being mostly not up to snuff on OS X.
>
> I can reproduce the behavior you mention on my own Mac, but the fact
> that it appears to work after the first time is probably just blind
> luck from happenstance locations of malloc results :-(
>
> As for GNU readline, I suspect you weren't actually testing it.
> Note that the thing called /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib is not GNU
> readline, it's only a symlink to libedit.
>
I am indeed running Lion. Thanks for helping me track down the cause.
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Peter van Hardenberg
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