Re: Windows v readline

On 2019-12-30 14:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 2019-09-29 22:55, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> It would certainly be nice to have readline-enabled psql on Windows if
>>> possible.
> 
>> I tried this out.  First, it doesn't build, because readline doesn't do
>> the dllimport/dllexport dance on global variables, so all references to
>> rl_* global variables in tab-complete.c fail (similar to [0]).  After
>> patching those out, it builds, but it doesn't work.
> 
> What do you mean by "patching those out" --- you removed all of
> tab-complete's external variable assignments?  That would certainly
> disable tab completion, at a minimum.

Yeah, basically remove tab completion altogether.  But readline would 
still be useful without that for line editing and history.

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