On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, what I should have asked is "are you running Lion?". > Because with libedit on Lion, tab completion is 100% broken, as per > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-07/msg01642.php > This is just the latest installment in a long and sad story of > libedit being mostly not up to snuff on OS X. > > I can reproduce the behavior you mention on my own Mac, but the fact > that it appears to work after the first time is probably just blind > luck from happenstance locations of malloc results :-( > > As for GNU readline, I suspect you weren't actually testing it. > Note that the thing called /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib is not GNU > readline, it's only a symlink to libedit. >
I am indeed running Lion. Thanks for helping me track down the cause. -- Peter van Hardenberg San Francisco, California "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." -- Kurt Vonnegut -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
