I had this same problem. Thanks to a suggestion from Bruce Momjian, I noticed that the configure script was not finding the readline libraries. I checked, and found that though I did have the readline package installed, I did not have the readline-devel package installed. Once I installed that package, the configure script found readline and after recompiling everything works fine. Erich wrote: > > I've just installed PostgreSQL 7.02 on my OpenBSD box. Everything is > working fine. I made sure to link in gnu readline in psql. It seems > to be working, because I can edit a line. For instance, Ctl-A takes > me to the beginning of a line, Ctl-K kills it, etc. However, Ctl-P > doesn't go up a line, so I can't access previous lines, and lines are > not saved in the .psql_history file which is mentioned on the man > page. > > Any idea what to do? Line editing is so handy to have in something > like this. > > Thanks, > > e
