On 2024-07-10 We 5:55 AM, Dave Page wrote:
What is more relevant is that as far as I can see, we've never actually supported either libedit or readline in MSVC++ builds - which kinda makes sense because Windows terminals are very different from traditional *nix ones. Windows isn't supported by either libedit or readline as far as I can see, except through a couple of forks.
I imagine from mingw/cygwin builds, readline would only actually work properly in their respective terminals.
configure.ac explicitly forces --without-readline on win32, so no for mingw. configure.ac claims there are issues especially with non-US code pages.
One of the reasons I've continued to support building with Cygwin is that its readline does seem to work, making its psql the best I know of on Windows.
cheers
andrew
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