Re: shell environment control within psql

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: myke(at)komar(dot)org (climbingboulder), pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: shell environment control within psql
Date: 2002-11-07 16:40:14
Message-ID: 200211071640.14118.dev@archonet.com
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On Thursday 31 Oct 2002 5:26 pm, climbingboulder wrote:
> I'm on sun solaris 2.8 with postgres 7.2. I run bash, and use VT102
> terminal emulation when I'm connected to this server. When I'm at the
> command line, I can use the backspace key, and the arrows. However,
> when I type "psql db" to get into the postgres shell.... none of these
> work. The arrow keys are especially frustrating...

Is "readline" support compiled into your version of PG? I think you need the
GNU readline libs which might need downloading for Solaris. Search the
archives and docs for details.

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Richard Huxton

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