Re: [GENERAL] Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)

2012-04-13 Thread Tom Lane
Bryan Hughes writes: > I now have "libreadline.a" in /usr/local/lib. Assuming that's the goal, > would you be kind enough to walk me through the next step -- linking that > lib to psql? I think it should work to just configure and build postgres the same as you otherwise would --- I believe Apple

Re: [GENERAL] Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)

2012-04-13 Thread Bryan Hughes
I now have "libreadline.a" in /usr/local/lib. Assuming that's the goal, would you be kind enough to walk me through the next step -- linking that lib to psql? bryan On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Bryan Hughes writes: > > Prior to updating my Snow Leopard Mac to OSX Lion (10

Re: [GENERAL] Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)

2012-04-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/13/12 1:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Yeah, to be fair the bug in question is upstream's, not Apple's. I'm just griping because they seem to grab random snapshots of upstream's SCM and release them with hardly any testing. It would possibly be all right if they didn't then sit on that release for

Re: [GENERAL] Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)

2012-04-13 Thread Tom Lane
John R Pierce writes: > On 04/13/12 12:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Apple broke this (again, or should I say worse) in their Lion update of >> libedit. > libedit has a long and nasty track record of being quite buggy. I was > using it briefly on a couple Unix systems we were trying to avoid > gn

Re: [GENERAL] Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)

2012-04-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/13/12 12:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Apple broke this (again, or should I say worse) in their Lion update of libedit. libedit has a long and nasty track record of being quite buggy. I was using it briefly on a couple Unix systems we were trying to avoid gnupollution on and found it was way

Re: [GENERAL] Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)

2012-04-13 Thread Tom Lane
Bryan Hughes writes: > Prior to updating my Snow Leopard Mac to OSX Lion (10.7.3), I was able to > open psql from a terminal and then use "tab complete" to auto-complete > table or field names (i.e., "select * from [TAB -- list of table names]"). > Unfortunately, something appears to have changed

Re: [GENERAL] Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)

2012-04-13 Thread Steve Crawford
On 04/13/2012 10:27 AM, Bryan Hughes wrote: Prior to updating my Snow Leopard Mac to OSX Lion (10.7.3), I was able to open psql from a terminal and then use "tab complete" to auto-complete table or field names (i.e., "select * from [TAB -- list of table names]"). Unfortunately, something appear

[GENERAL] Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)

2012-04-13 Thread Bryan Hughes
Prior to updating my Snow Leopard Mac to OSX Lion (10.7.3), I was able to open psql from a terminal and then use "tab complete" to auto-complete table or field names (i.e., "select * from [TAB -- list of table names]"). Unfortunately, something appears to have changed and tab complete now does noth