psotgresql history function

The problem is probably that the Digital Unix machine is missing the
readline library, or that Postgres's configure script can't find it. You
can download the readline library from ftp.gnu.org (I think it's in
pub/gnu/readline if memory serves me correctly) Compile and install
readline, then recompile and install Postgres. You probably should delete
and then reinstall the Postgres sources before rebuilding, so it won't
attempt to use any cached config settings. I think you can just get away
with deleting config.cache, but I honestly can't remember.

At 02:45 PM 7/5/00, Peter Mittermayer wrote:

I had that same problem on Solaris, Irix and HP-unix.

It seems that Linux is the only platform that has a nice history
in psql.

Merlijn

Peter Mittermayer wrote:

Hi,

I compiled and installed PostgreSQL v7.0.2 on a Linux box where the
history function in psql (cursor up/down) worked without any
problems. After
that I recompiled the package on a Digital Unix 4.0d machine. But
there it is not working! Is there something I have to configure? I
tried to use several terminal emulations (vt100, xterm) which did
not work out.

Any suggestions??

TIA,

Peter

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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Merlijn van der Mee wrote:

I had that same problem on Solaris, Irix and HP-unix.

It seems that Linux is the only platform that has a nice history
in psql.

No, you need to get the GNU readline library to get that functionality.
Then you'll have to rebuild Postgres (the configure script should properly
detect whether or not readline is available).

Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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