Document that NetBSD's libedit can be used instead of readline.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index 883baf4225d1da0f4248d6e6babfa1c64e3f19f9..7ac27fa4a653333ad34df7e61f8320f0bd6b9c8b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -74,7 +74,10 @@ su - postgres
       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.)
      </para>
     </listitem>