Turns out it was an errant line in a my psqlrc file that customised the prompt.. doh.
Thanks anyway.
On 10/05/2013, at 1:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Brett Haydon <brett@haydon.id.au> writes:
>> On OSX terminal, when I try and access psql history the historical line is only partially visible sometimes mixed
withthe last line executed, and the start position of the cursor moves about 15-20 chars in. The line still executes
correctly,but it's driving me nuts. Google was not my friend. Any ideas?
>
> What that sounds like is that you're running psql with the wrong value
> of the TERM environment variable, so that it's guessing wrong about what
> control characters to send for terminal cursor positioning. Try
> "echo $TERM" and see what you get. On my Mac laptop, it seems to
> default to "xterm" and I get good results from that.
>
> regards, tom lane
