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Problem with psql interface

From
"Grant Rhodes"
Date:
It used to be that when I used psql I could press the up arrow on my keyboard, and get the last line typed.  Now when I
pressthe up arrow, the cursor moves up to the previous line showing on the screen. Does anyone know how I can correct
this? The problem has started since I installed the progrma on a fresh install of Caldera Openlinux 3.2.1.  I do not
believeI did anything different on installation. 

Thanks,

GTJ

Re: Problem with psql interface

From
Ron Johnson
Date:
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 13:28, Grant Rhodes wrote:
> It used to be that when I used psql I could press the up arrow on
> my keyboard, and get the last line typed.  Now when I press the
> up arrow, the cursor moves up to the previous line showing on the
> screen. Does anyone know how I can correct this?  The problem
> has started since I installed the progrma on a fresh install
> of Caldera Openlinux 3.2.1.  I do not believe I did anything
> different on installation.

Sounds like readline wasn't linked in.

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Re: Problem with psql interface

From
"Grant Rhodes"
Date:
Hmm...  It is there....
$ ls -1 /usr/lib/libread*
/usr/lib/libreadline.a
/usr/lib/libreadline.so
/usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
/usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.1

$ ls -1 /usr/include/readline
chardefs.h
history.h
keymaps.h
readline.h
rlconf.h
rlstdc.h
tilde.h

but ./configure (even with a --with-readline) still gives
<snip>
checking for readline... no
</snip>

Maybe my assumption that readline 4.1 works with postgresql-7.2 is incorrect.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
Sent: July 12, 2003 2:14 PM
To: PgSQL Novice ML
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Problem with psql interface


On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 13:28, Grant Rhodes wrote:
> It used to be that when I used psql I could press the up arrow on
> my keyboard, and get the last line typed.  Now when I press the
> up arrow, the cursor moves up to the previous line showing on the
> screen. Does anyone know how I can correct this?  The problem
> has started since I installed the progrma on a fresh install
> of Caldera Openlinux 3.2.1.  I do not believe I did anything
> different on installation.

Sounds like readline wasn't linked in.

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Re: Problem with psql interface

From
Tom Lane
Date:
"Grant Rhodes" <grhodes@networkroads.com> writes:
> but ./configure (even with a --with-readline) still gives
> <snip>
> checking for readline... no
> </snip>
> Maybe my assumption that readline 4.1 works with postgresql-7.2 is incorrect.

AFAIK it should work.  Could you look into the section of config.log
where this check occurs, and find out exactly why it's failing?  You may
need to try the test program by hand to see the error message(s).

            regards, tom lane