Re: pasting into psql garbles text - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Leif B. Kristensen
Subject Re: pasting into psql garbles text
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Msg-id 200906271949.52714.leif@solumslekt.org
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In response to pasting into psql garbles text  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Saturday 27. June 2009, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>I've noticed over a wide variety of operating systems that when you
>paste from an application into psql through a terminal (currently
>using the default gnome terminal in ubuntu), large pastes tend to get
>garbled with some of the input getting truncated.  While working on
>functions, this is annoying in the extreme.
>
>Interestingly, the one platform that tends not to suffer from this is
>windows so I'm guessing this is a readline problem.  Has anybody else
>noticed this? Is there a workaround?

I'm using the KDE Konsole, and I've not experienced the problem you're
describing. However, pasting large functions or multi-line queries
tends to mess up the readline history, so the next time I press arrow
up, I'll often get garbled lines and lose the prompt.
--
Leif Biberg Kristensen | Registered Linux User #338009
Me And My Database: http://solumslekt.org/blog/

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