"Tim Joyce" <tim@hoop.co.uk> writes:
> i think that the postgres build should check more thoroughly that
> /usr/include/readline/*.h exists and not let you make with out it,
That cure would be a lot worse than the disease!
> as pgsql is quite unusable without arrow and del keys.
If you don't have readline installed, then you're not used to using it,
so I doubt you will consider psql "unusable" without it. Postgres is
already a pain to install; adding more required prerequisite packages
would make it worse...
regards, tom lane