Martin, On 02/14/2011 02:08 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > thanks Markus for CC'ing me, I'm not on -hackers@.
Sure. > Note that the recent discussions happened on bug 608442, in particular > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608442#30 Thanks for this pointer. > Markus Wanner [2011-02-14 13:37 +0100]: >> Personally, I'm a bit suspicious about that solution (technically as >> well as from a licensing perspective), [...] > > For the record, so am I (see comment 30 in the link above) That's good to hear. ;-) > as it uses > the very same ld.so in both cases. However, Andreas Barth pointed out > that with LD_PRELOAD it's guaranteed that we do not "import" any code > from the libreadline header files, which guarantees that psql doesn't > become something that can be considered a "derived work". Hm.. interesting reasoning. But yes, there is something to it. It's not really the linking that matters, it seems. > Technically, this is a bit fragile, of course, as there might be some > subtle ABI differences which lead to crashes. However, the preloading > workaround already makes the situation so much better than before, so > IMHO it's better than the previous status quo. Absolutely, thanks for taking care. Regards Markus Wanner -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
