Re: shell environment control within psql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: shell environment control within psql
Date
Msg-id 200211071640.14118.dev@archonet.com
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In response to shell environment control within psql  (myke@komar.org (climbingboulder))
List pgsql-general
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.

--
  Richard Huxton

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