Laurette Cisneros <laurette@nextbus.com> writes:
> When output is displayed my terminal screen scrolling goes away and the
> output lines are not wrapped. That is the output (is aligned) goes off the
> screen to the right and does not wrap and the scroll bar disapears so that
> I can't scroll back.
Offhand I'd guess that you are using a TERM setting that's not really
compatible with your terminal program. You may need to do some
experimentation to figure out what TERM setting to use; or in extremis
replace your terminal program with something that comes closer to one
of the available settings.
Another variable to play with is switching to a different pager program
(if you're using "more", try "less", or vice versa). In any case this
isn't psql's fault, at least not directly. All it does is invoke the
pager program to display output.
regards, tom lane
