The issue is that OpenBSD ships with a wierd readline. Its a one-line fix,
search the archives for openbsd and readline. 7.2 should have the fix
already.
Alternatively, compile pgsql without readline.
-alex
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Keary Suska wrote:
> It looks like there is something amiss with your installed readline
> libraries. Are they GNU readline? If not, you may need to install the GNU
> version. I don't recall of PG expects it precisely, and I cant say if
> installing GNU will break other programs.
>
> Keary Suska
> Esoteritech, Inc.
> "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
>
> > From: Pete Leonard <pete@hero.com>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
> > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [GENERAL] Postgres 7.1.3 on OpenBSD 2.9?
> >
> >
> > Has anyone out there succeeded in installing Postgres 7.1.3 on an
> > x86-based OpenBSD 2.9 install?
> >
> > My setup -
> >
> > x86 OpenBSD 2.9, out-of-the-box (no patches).
> >
> > Unpacked the Postgres 7.1.3 tarball. Configure, make, make check all
> > pass. Installed cleanly. Updated /var/run/ld.so.hints to include
> > /usr/local/pgsql/lib.
> >
> > initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ ran fine.
> > database started up without complaint.
> > createdb test was fine.
> >
> > Attempting to log into the database with pgsql died as follows:
> >
> > bash-2.05$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
> > Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
> >
> > Type: \copyright for distribution terms
> > \h for help with SQL commands
> > \? for help on internal slash commands
> > \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> > \q to quit
> >
> > /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "_tgetent" called from
> > psql:/usr/lib/libreadline.so.0.0 at 0x40165964
> > pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions? There's nothing in the documentation that suggests
> > special settings for installing on OpenBSD. If there's any additional
> > information I can provide, please let me know.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > --peter
> >
> >
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