Rasputin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In this case, disabling readline starts up the client OK. > I'll try upgrading readline on this system ,and see what happens. I was just going to suggest that. Did you compile Postgres from source, or is this an assemblage of RPMs? There have been enough different versions of libreadline distributed that I wouldn't be surprised to find out that our RPMs are not compatible with some of 'em. But I dunno whether the RPMs are marked with sufficiently tight dependency info. If you find that a newer libreadline fixes it, we'd like to know what the old and new libreadline versions are ... regards, tom lane