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 <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Bryan Hughes <huu...@gmail.com> 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 and tab complete now > does > > nothing. > > > Does anyone know of a fix for this problem? > > Apple broke this (again, or should I say worse) in their Lion update of > libedit. There's discussion of that in the PG archives. On track > record so far, nothing will be done about it before Mountain Lion, and > that version will have an all-new set of bugs instead. > > If you're using psql to any significant extent on OS X, I'd recommend > installing GNU libreadline and then building a copy of psql linked to > that. > > (Note: /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib is *not* GNU readline, despite the > name; it's merely a symlink to libedit.) > > regards, tom lane >
