Re: backslash in psql win32

Hi to all, specialy to Tom :-)

I have the same problem using backslash in mingw build of psql. the 
reason for this "bug" is the use of readline 
$POSTGRES_SOURCE\src\bin\psql\input.c

in function gets_interactive, if USE_READLINE defined the readline 
function would be called:

#ifdef USE_READLINE
...
    if (useReadline)
       /* On some platforms, readline is declared as readline(char *) */
       s = readline((char *) prompt);
    else
       s = gets_basic(prompt);
...
#endif

if I set useReadline to false, it would use gets_basic and this works 
with cmd & winxp & german settings (backslash using alt-gr). I don't 
know what exactly happens in readline() and why it's better than 
gets_basic(), but it shouldn't be used with msys/mingw.

Have a nice day,
Martin

Tom.Zschockelt@flender.com wrote:
> 
> Hi to all,
> 
> 
> in win32 psql (startet from cmd.exe) it's not possible to execute any 
> backslash command, because
> the backslash character does not appear . It's not possible to insert 
> special characters !!!
> 
> I changed the console charset to 850, 1252,
> but there is the same problem
> 
> How can I solve this problem ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> tom
> 
> hint : I use postgres-snapshot from 30.03.2004