It looks like I had readline 4.3 installed. I just installed readline 5.0 - the F1-4 keys still cause psql to segfault. (AFAIK I don't need to recompile postgres for psql to use the newly installed readline). CSN --- Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > CSN <cool_screen_name90001@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I did 'strace psql dbname' and this was the output > > after hitting F1: > > > read(0, "\33", 1) = 1 > > read(0, "O", 1) = 1 > > read(0, "P", 1) = 1 > > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > > Hmm ... I don't have an F1 key, but I typed > escape-O-P at a psql > running under Linux, and got this: > > Process 28978 attached - interrupt to quit > read(0, "\33", 1) = 1 > read(0, "O", 1) = 1 > read(0, "P", 1) = 1 > write(2, "\7", 1) = 1 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 > read(0, > > So it seems fine here. I'm wondering if there's > something broken > about your machine's readline library. > > regards, tom lane > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly