Re: Resurrecting some old patches

[Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Aren't they in the 8.2 hold queue that I have not processed yet:

	http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold

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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> Late last year I posted some patches for psql but they were deferred
> pending the release of 8.2. However, they are not in the patch queue
> so I thought I'd bring them up again now the release is done.
> 
> 1. Dealing with a buggy readline on some platforms w.r.t. --as-needed.
> 
> The serious arguments for --as-needed have gone now we exclude various
> libs from the main postgres binary. However, the other executables
> still include a lot more libs than necessary.
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-10/msg01364.php
> 
> 2. Handling Ctrl-C pressed while running an external pager.
> 
> This bug still irritates me from time to time so it would be nice to
> fix it for once and for all. Not to meantion the memory and file
> descriptor leaks caused by the current code. However, the tree has
> deviated significantly since that patch was posted. I have prepared a
> version against HEAD if people are still interested. The details are in
> this message:
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-10/msg00194.php
> 
> The only change from that is that I've now also removed paging support
> from the following programs:
> 
> createdb, createlang, createuser, dropdb, droplang, dropuser,
> clusterdb, vacuumdb, reindexdb.
> 
> In so far as it's not clear how much they used the paging support
> anyway, keeping it would require setting up of the signal handlers the
> same way psql does since the code is shared. I figured it wasn't worth
> it.
> 
> The new patch is here but can be posted to -patches if there is
> sufficient interest:
> http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/psql-ctrlc2.patch
> 
> Have a nice day,
> -- 
> Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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