Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> writes: > Tom just advised me via private e-mail that my termcap database may be > the issue here. Looks like he was right. I did a "sudo aptitude > reinstall ncurses-base", and now the tests pass against HEAD. (I > probably should have tried to preserve things before going ahead with > that, but that didn't happen -- I had no reason to think that the > system was affected by any kind of corruption.)
Hm, well, HEAD still has the hackery with explicit accounting for escape sequences. Could you try it with the patch I showed to unset TERM and remove that stuff? (It won't apply exactly to HEAD, but the diffs are simple enough, or you could revert to 60ab7c80b first.) > I am very sorry for having wasted your time on this wild goose chase, Don't worry about it --- even if it was some upgrade glitch, there was no way to know that in advance. regards, tom lane