Re: Commands history with psql in a Windows command line shell

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lmhelp1 <lmhelp1(at)orange(dot)fr>
Cc: Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Commands history with psql in a Windows command line shell
Date: 2016-08-02 16:57:19
Message-ID: 17512.1470157039@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Lmhelp1 <lmhelp1(at)orange(dot)fr> writes:
> cmd.exe psql <database_name># \s
> history is not supported by this installation

This means you have a copy of psql.exe that was built without the readline
library, so history doesn't work either. I'm not sure what the state of
the readline library is for Windows; there may not be any version that
works well.

regards, tom lane

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