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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release.sgml3
2 files changed, 32 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index 11e4b923681..a30f2d3db35 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.76 2002/04/10 16:45:25 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.77 2002/04/10 22:46:33 petere Exp $ -->
<chapter id="installation">
<title><![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]>
@@ -92,11 +92,12 @@ su - postgres
<primary>readline</primary>
</indexterm>
- The <acronym>GNU</> <productname>Readline</> library (for comfortable
- line editing and command history retrieval) will automatically be used
- if found. You might wish to install it before proceeding, but it is not
- essential. (On <productname>NetBSD</productname>, the
- <filename>libedit</filename> library is
+ The <acronym>GNU</> <productname>Readline</> library (for
+ comfortable line editing and command history retrieval) will be
+ used by default. If you don't want to use it then you must
+ specify the <option>--without-readline</option> option for
+ <filename>configure</>. (On <productname>NetBSD</productname>,
+ the <filename>libedit</filename> library is
<productname>readline</productname>-compatible and is used if
<filename>libreadline</filename> is not found.)
</para>
@@ -848,6 +849,29 @@ su - postgres
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--without-readline</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Prevents the use of the Readline library. This disables
+ command-line editing and history in
+ <application>psql</application>, so it is not recommended.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--without-zlib</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Prevents the use of the Zlib library. This disables
+ compression support in <application>pg_dump</application>.
+ This option is only intended for those rare systems where this
+ library is not available.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><option>--enable-debug</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index e70bb7fa099..a2ace11be54 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.131 2002/04/05 00:31:23 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.132 2002/04/10 22:46:48 petere Exp $
-->
<appendix id="release">
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ CDATA means the content is "SGML-free", so you can write without
worries about funny characters.
-->
<literallayout><![CDATA[
+Readline and Zlib are now required by default and must be turned off explicitly if their use is not desired
Define a third class of function volatility to allow indexscans in more cases
Locale support is now built by default; choice of locale is set by initdb and/or at run-time
ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SET/DROP NOT NULL