Re: BUG #16059: Tab-completion of filenames in COPY commands removes required quotes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #16059: Tab-completion of filenames in COPY commands removes required quotes
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Msg-id 17621.1576263307@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #16059: Tab-completion of filenames in COPY commands removes required quotes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:52 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I think it's Debian's problem, not ours, if that doesn't work.  It is
>>> not unreasonable for a package to probe existence of a library function
>>> at configure time.  It's up to them to make sure that the headers match
>>> the actual library.

>> That seems like an unhelpful attitude. Debian is a mainstream
>> platform, and no doubt feels that they have important reasons for what
>> they are doing.

Actually, this argument is based on a false premise anyhow.  I took
a look into Debian's source package, and AFAICS they are not doing
anything as weird as a run-time substitution.  They are just filling
the build environment with libedit-dev not libreadline-dev.  So that
is certainly a supported configuration from our side, and if there
is any header-to-library discrepancy then it's just a simple bug
in the libedit package.

(Maybe at one time they were doing something weird; I didn't look
back further than the current sources for PG 12.)

            regards, tom lane



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