Just checking back to see if there have been any updates on this.
Thanks!
Gabe
Apparently my colleague downloaded and installed a tarball of GNU
> termcap 1.3.1.
>
> I'm still not clear how this passed our internal testing though; I'm
> guessing the QA test VMs do have some package on them which
> If you install libtermcap then it will start working good. We have
> tested it at our end.
Thanks Dharmendra, however in Ubuntu there is no package called
libtermcap, though it has been suggested that the libncurses5-dev
package provides this [1]. However I tried this and I still get the
same er
> There was a change in 9.0.2 to use libedit instead of readline for
> this (readline is GPL, which is not acceptable to some people who wish
> to use Postgres in other products). One of my colleagues has tested
> the issue reported and confirmed that installing the OS's termcap
> package should so
The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5807
Logged by: Gabe Nell
Email address: g...@kikini.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.0.2
Operating system: Linux Ubuntu 10.04
Description:psql fails to launch with "Cannot read termcap database;
using dumb ter
