Re: psql and readline

Eric B.Ridge writes:

> What about expanding the history capabilities of psql's history command
> (\s) to include something more bash/tcsh-like? For example:
> !insert
> -- execute the last command that began with "insert"
> !23
> -- execute item #23 in my history

If you peruse the documentation of the readline and history libraries you
should find that those features already exist. For example, you can use
C-r and C-s to search through the history. AFAIK, bash just uses readline
as is, so anything that works there should work for psql as well.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net