Thread: psql on red hat 7.1
After upgrading to red hat 7.1 I can no longer use arrow keys to browse the psql history The file .psql_history is my home directory. Can someone help me? I am using 7.1.2 Thanks
newsreader@mediaone.net writes: > After upgrading to red hat 7.1 > I can no longer use arrow keys to browse > the psql history > > The file .psql_history is my home > directory. > > Can someone help me? > > I am using 7.1.2 RHL 7.1 shipped with postgresql 7.0 - is this one of the official rpms, or did you compile it yourself? -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.
Hi, I'm guessing that you've compiled your own version of PostgreSQL 7.1.2. The symptoms you mention are what happens when PostgreSQL is compiled without the "readline" library(ies). Normally the PostgreSQL "configure" program finds this if it's on your system, but I'm thinking that perhaps you don't have it installed or the "configure" program didn't find it for some reason. You should probably compile PostgreSQL again, making sure that it can find the readline library(ies). This will give you a psql command line history, etc. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift newsreader@mediaone.net wrote: > > After upgrading to red hat 7.1 > I can no longer use arrow keys to browse > the psql history > > The file .psql_history is my home > directory. > > Can someone help me? > > I am using 7.1.2 > > Thanks > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:23:51AM +1000, Justin Clift wrote: > Hi, > > I'm guessing that you've compiled your own version of PostgreSQL 7.1.2. > > The symptoms you mention are what happens when PostgreSQL is compiled > without the "readline" library(ies). Normally the PostgreSQL > "configure" program finds this if it's on your system, but I'm thinking > that perhaps you don't have it installed or the "configure" program > didn't find it for some reason. I compiled 7.1.2 myself I now see that configure does not find readline even though it is installed How should I tell configure where to find it? Thanks
Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes:
> The symptoms you mention are what happens when PostgreSQL is compiled
> without the "readline" library(ies). Normally the PostgreSQL
> "configure" program finds this if it's on your system, but I'm thinking
> that perhaps you don't have it installed or the "configure" program
> didn't find it for some reason.
Note that you need to have both the library itself and its header files.
If you installed 'em from RPMs that means you need both readline and
readline-devel RPMs. Otherwise configure will decide you haven't got
readline installed...
regards, tom lane
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:47:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes: > > that perhaps you don't have it installed or the "configure" program > > didn't find it for some reason. > > Note that you need to have both the library itself and its header files. > If you installed 'em from RPMs that means you need both readline and > readline-devel RPMs. Otherwise configure will decide you haven't got > readline installed... Here is what I have $ rpm -qa|grep readl readline-devel-4.1-9 readline-4.1-9 readline2.2.1-2.2.1-2 Anyway I don't install rpm. configure says I cannot find readline. I have also reinstalled readline again
Hi again, You're probably best to look through the mailing list archives for the best ways people have found for doing this. There have been a few people with similar problems over time. :-) If you don't find anything there, feel free to ask again. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift newsreader@mediaone.net wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:23:51AM +1000, Justin Clift wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm guessing that you've compiled your own version of PostgreSQL 7.1.2. > > > > The symptoms you mention are what happens when PostgreSQL is compiled > > without the "readline" library(ies). Normally the PostgreSQL > > "configure" program finds this if it's on your system, but I'm thinking > > that perhaps you don't have it installed or the "configure" program > > didn't find it for some reason. > > I compiled 7.1.2 myself > > I now see that configure does not > find readline even though it is > installed > > How should I tell configure > where to find it? > > Thanks > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
I have the same problem on Mac OS X. Has anyone gotten readline support to work with OS X? --Scott On Sunday, July 22, 2001, at 07:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes: >> The symptoms you mention are what happens when PostgreSQL is compiled >> without the "readline" library(ies). Normally the PostgreSQL >> "configure" program finds this if it's on your system, but I'm thinking >> that perhaps you don't have it installed or the "configure" program >> didn't find it for some reason. > > Note that you need to have both the library itself and its header files. > If you installed 'em from RPMs that means you need both readline and > readline-devel RPMs. Otherwise configure will decide you haven't got > readline installed... > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly -- Scott W. Hill VeriSign Payment Services shill@verisign.com