On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 20:47 +0200, Holger Jakobs wrote: > > Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com> writes: > > > Recently I had to use PostgreSQL on a Windows based system, and I was > > > surprised that the psql tool behaves differently, when it comes to the > > > functionality of the readline library. > > The page https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html says: > > "Microsoft offers its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as an installable add-on > for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It's basically a separate packaged version of > the Linux kernel that runs as a Windows service, and you can build and install > readline-8.2 within that environment." Maybe it works when the machine doing > the compiling and packaging has WSL installed. Would be worth trying, imho.
Yes, it should be simple to build "psql" with readline in that environment, so I recommend that you do that.
I guess the Windows binaries don't want to require the users to install Microsoft's Linux emulation. After all, if you do that, you might as well use the ready-made Linux binaries.
