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Re: BUG #16059: Tab-completion of filenames in COPY commands removes required quotes

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, steven.winfield@cantabcapital.com
Date: 2019-12-11T15:52:30Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers 
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2019-Dec-11, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Are people still compiling against libedit and then redirecting to
>> libreadline at runtime? I seem to recall some discussion about this
>> being a thing, many years ago.

> Yeah, Debian did that out of licensing concerns.  It seems they still do
> that, based on
> https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/postgresql-client-12

I think it's Debian's problem, not ours, if that doesn't work.  It is
not unreasonable for a package to probe existence of a library function
at configure time.  It's up to them to make sure that the headers match
the actual library.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Improve psql's tab completion for filenames.

  2. Modernize our readline API a tad.

  3. Add tab completion for EXPLAIN (SETTINGS) in psql