| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql & readline & win32 |
| Date: | 2006-02-13 17:52:17 |
| Message-ID: | 2734.1139853137@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> What would we patch it with? I don't think anybody has found a problem
>> there, this is a separate file that you ship along with it.
> Well, the problem is that it handles backslash incorrectly. We could
> patch that in the readline source rather than playing with a
> configuaration file.
Do the readline developers agree that it's "incorrect"? I could see
shipping a patch as a short-term band-aid, but not if the patch isn't
going to be accepted upstream.
>> Even that may not be enough. This is the GPL we're talking about.
> At that point, psql becomes GPL, no question.
Which means it's not happening, no?
regards, tom lane
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