On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > FreeBSD has a freely available library called 'libedit' that could
> > > be shipped with postgresql, it's under the BSD license.
> >
> > Yes, that is our solution if we have a real problem here.
>
> Is there a reason *not* to move towards that for v7.2 so that the
> functions we are making optional with readline are automatic? Since we
> could then ship the code, we could make it a standard vs optional
> "feature" ...
Also, it might be beneficial to _not_ link postmaster/postgres against
libreadline - I don't see where either of those programs need it - sure,
psql, but the backends? ...
morannon:~>ldd `which postgres` libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40019000) libcrypt.so.1 =>
/lib/libcrypt.so.1(0x40028000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x40055000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2
(0x4006c000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40070000) libreadline.so.3 => /lib/libreadline.so.3 (0x4008d000)
libtermcap.so.2 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x400b5000) libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4
(0x400b9000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400ff000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
morannon:~>ldd `which psql` libpq.so.2.1 => /usr/lib/libpq.so.2.1 (0x40019000) libz.so.1 =>
/usr/lib/libz.so.1(0x40028000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40037000) libnsl.so.1 =>
/lib/libnsl.so.1(0x40064000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4007b000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6
(0x4007f000) libreadline.so.3 => /lib/libreadline.so.3 (0x4009d000) libtermcap.so.2 =>
/usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2(0x400c4000) libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x400c8000) libc.so.6 =>
/lib/libc.so.6(0x4010e000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
postgres/postmaster very likely don't need either libreadline, nor
libncurses... Unless there's something I'm missing.
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