Christoph Berg <m...@debian.org> writes:
> Fwiw if libedit in xenial is Just Broken and fixing the tests would
> just codify the brokenness without adding any value, I'll just disable
> that test in that particular build. It looks like setting
> with_readline=no on the make command line should work.
That would disable psql's tab completion, command editing, and history
altogether, which I doubt is what you want for production builds.
If we conclude we can't work around the testing issues for ancient
libedit, probably the right answer is to provide a switch to
disable just the test. I've been trying to dance around that
conclusion, but maybe we should just do it and move on.
regards, tom lane
