Re: 7.0 psql, readline and history.

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:35:17 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: Jeffery Collins <collins@onyx-technologies.com>
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 psql, readline and history.
>
> Jeffery Collins <collins@onyx-technologies.com> writes:
> > It *appears* to me that 7.0 requires readline version 4.1 in order for
> > the readline history features to work, whereas 6.5.3 was happy with an
> > earlier version.  When I updated my version of readline, the readline
> > history functions started working.
>
> We had realized that the new code didn't work with some older versions
> of libreadline, but we thought we'd fixed the configure test to tell
> the difference.  Were you seeing that configure thought it found
> readline support and then it didn't work?
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

I have libreadline4 4.1-1, libreadline4-dev 4.1-1 (debian potato) but
it doesn't work with pgsql as well (postgres-7.0 installed from sources
with configure without parameters).

regards, mi