Re: viewing results in terminal on RedHat 6.1

Brett,
Thanks! That did it.

Lance

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From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Brett Parker
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 8:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADMIN] viewing results in terminal on RedHat 6.1

On 03 Jun 12:49, Campbell, Lance wrote:
> Postgres: 9.x
> On RedHat 4.x when I would access Postgres through a terminal for command line queries if the results of a queries exceeded more than 50+ lines I would still see the results after pressing "quit". On RedHat 6.1 Workstation when I see queries that exceed some threshold 50+ when I press "quit" the screen clears away the results so that I can no longer see them.
>
> I also notice this behavior when I ssh into a server running postgres 8.4.x. So the behavior seems to be isolated to Redhat 6.1 not the version of Postgres.
>
> Does anyone know how to tell RedHat 6.1 Workstation to not do this?

It seems that that's actually a problem with the pager (and it's not really the pagers fault either)...

I'd guess you're using less as the pager, if so try (before starting
psql) doing:

LESS="-X"
export LESS

If that "fixes" it for you, the issue is that the termcap init/deinit for your terminal clears the output.

Cheers,
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Brett Parker

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