On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 4:58 PM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kirk Wolak <wolakk@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > We have our team of Windows developers, leveraging PSQL. But honestly, > > it feels crippled after using PSQL in Linux for any length of time. Losing > > auto-complete sucks (multi-line query recall/editing is lost as well). > > > In researching this problem, it appears that the decision was made like > > 17yrs ago, when windows did not have a realistic "terminal" type > > interface. Assuming we target Windows 8.1 or higher, I believe this goes > > away. > > It'd certainly be nice if we could use Readline on Windows. I do not > think we want to buy into maintaining our own fork of Readline, if that's > what you're trying to suggest. If it "just works" now, that'd be great. > Otherwise, maybe you should be speaking to the Readline maintainers > about what changes are needed in it? FWIW, I've been using https://github.com/arangodb/linenoise-ng for Linux and Windows, but that's C++ and no longer supported (but worked well enough for me). The main https://github.com/antirez/linenoise itself does not build as-is on Windows still, I believe. --DD
