Re: pgsql: Add basic TAP tests for psql's tab-completion logic.

Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
Organization 2ndQuadrant
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On 2020-01-09 16:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christoph Berg <[email protected]> writes:
>> Fwiw if libedit in xenial is Just Broken and fixing the tests would
>> just codify the brokenness without adding any value, I'll just disable
>> that test in that particular build. It looks like setting
>> with_readline=no on the make command line should work.
> 
> That would disable psql's tab completion, command editing, and history
> altogether, which I doubt is what you want for production builds.
> If we conclude we can't work around the testing issues for ancient
> libedit, probably the right answer is to provide a switch to
> disable just the test.  I've been trying to dance around that
> conclusion, but maybe we should just do it and move on.

I think he means something like

make check with_readline=no

not for the actual build.

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