Re: simple question regarding the building of psql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: simple question regarding the building of psql
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Msg-id 25683.984948327@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to simple question regarding the building of psql  (Jeff Davis <jdavis@genesiswd.com>)
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Jeff Davis <jdavis@genesiswd.com> writes:
> I really like the feature of psql that allows you to press "up" to go to
> your command history, and press "home" to go to the beginning, etc (like
> a normal shell).

That's the GNU readline and history libraries.  Make sure you have those
installed (headers too --- you may need a 'devel' RPM) then re-run
configure and rebuild psql.  (You needn't rebuild everything, just
src/bin/psql/.)  Make sure configure shows that it's found libreadline
and readline.h.

            regards, tom lane

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