Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 02/17/2011 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> >> FWIW, the only interactively usable version of psql for windows I know
> >> of is the one that runs under Cygwin. It can be build with readline and
> >> works as expected.
> > Uh, don't we have a psql built via MSVC? Doesn't it work interactively?
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> Not if you want readline. And in my book that's a requirement of a psql
> that's usable interactively. It's pretty horrible to use without it.
Well, as horrible as other Windows apps. I will leave others to decide
if that is usable. ;-) I am unclear if we would ship readline support
on Windows even if we didn't have a license issue (no OS readline
version on Windows).
-- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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