Re: What is paging my psql

On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Friday, November 21, 2025, lejeczek <peljasz(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>>
>> I'm only trying to investigate & understand why that is that one box does
>> - what I under is "paging" of a short output - whereas other two do _not_
>> that.
>> The _but_ here is - obviously - that between that 1 box VS 2 other
>> boxes, there must be a difference(s) somewhere... but ! where?
>>
>
> I guess I’m not trying to walk you through debugging and diagnostics at
> this point because this doesn’t seem like a bug. So yes, I’ve have been
> unable to completely understand the issue because it is not being presented
> in a complete manner. It would be better to pick a single one that is
> “wrong”, fully show and describe what you are doing and what you expect to
> happen (and ideally why), and basically treat it like a bug report. Asking
> us to compare to behaviors that aren’t related to PostgreSQL version is
> hit-or-miss. On that note, what is the version or versions of the psql
> client involved here?
>
> Since psql is a CLI not mentioning which terminal and/or shells are in
> use, or OS, is a major omission here.
>

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link, and should be again.

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