On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 13:37, Markus Wanner <mar...@bluegap.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/10/2011 11:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607109 >> >> It seems we may have a problem to consider. As far as I know, we are the >> only major platform that supports libedit but our default is readline. >> Unfortunately readline is not compatible with OpenSSL (apparently?) >> licensing. > > Anybody realized that this Debian bug (and several others) got closed in > the mean time (Sunday)? According to the changelog [1], Martin Pitt > (which I'm CC'ing here, as he might not be aware of this thread, yet) > worked around this issue by pre-loading readline via LD_PRELOAD for psql. > > Personally, I'm a bit suspicious about that solution (technically as > well as from a licensing perspective), but it's probably the simplest > way to let only psql link against readline.
That is a rather ugly workaround, but if it works and actually fixes the license considerations, then it's at least better than nothing at all. Not sure it's a reason not to have our own packaging (mainly because we could provide the version compatibility mix), but it would certainly reduce the urgency. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers