Re: [Bug-readline] Fw: Re: [SQL] possible bug in psql

[Alex Shulgin]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:01 AM, chester c young
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> in psql in Ubuntu, when beginning with a smaller
>> terminal, eg, 80 col wide, then expanding to a larger terminal,
>> eg, 132 col wide, the readline editor in psql still
>> treats like 80 cols, making it impossible to edit longer
>> text.
>
> from dpkg --list:
>
> ii  libreadline6                           6.2-2ubuntu1                       
>      GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries
> ii  readline-common                        6.2-2ubuntu1                       
>      GNU readline and history libraries, common files
> ii  postgresql-client-9.1                  9.1.3-0ubuntu0.11.10               
>      front-end programs for PostgreSQL 9.1

On my Ubuntu 12.04, psql uses libedit instead of libreadline (not suprisingly):

$ ldd /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/psql
...
libedit.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libedit.so.2 (0x0044e000)

Does this answer your question?