2011/2/14 Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net>: > 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.
Yes! > > 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. I agree. "Consider providing debian packages at debian.postgresql.org" Do we push that on the TODO list ? I believe it can come promptly after the extension stuff is done :) -- Cédric Villemain 2ndQuadrant http://2ndQuadrant.fr/ PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
