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<title><![%flattext-install-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]> Installation Instructions</title>

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

required.

required. (On <productname>NetBSD</productname>, the

<filename>libedit</filename> library is

<productname>readline</productname>-compatible and is used if

<filename>libreadline</filename> is not found.)

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