Re: use of arrow keys to traverse history - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Dorin Grunberg
Subject Re: use of arrow keys to traverse history
Date
Msg-id 4.2.0.58.20010425141511.00ad15b0@pophost
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In response to use of arrow keys to traverse history  ("Peter J. Schoenster" <borg@errorcode.com>)
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You need to install Readline library. I know I used readline 4.1 and it 
works great.

Dorin


At 12:42 PM 4/25/2001 -0600, Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Not sure where this question belongs ... I thought postgresql was
>running under the bash shell where I can use up and down arrow
>keys to traverse my command history. I can do this in mysql but
>oddly not in oracle or postgresql.
>
>/home/postgres
>
>-rw-r--r--   1 postgres postgres     1422 Feb 16 15:50 .Xdefaults
>-rw-------   1 postgres postgres      458 Feb 17 16:59 .bash_history
>-rw-r--r--   1 postgres postgres       24 Feb 16 15:50 .bash_logout
>-rw-r--r--   1 postgres postgres      230 Feb 16 15:50 .bash_profile
>-rw-r--r--   1 postgres postgres      313 Feb 17 16:36 .bashrc
>
>Which in my ignorance leads me to believe that postgres will run in
>the bash shell and so I expect the use of arrow keys or command
>history.
>
>Clues appreciated.
>
>Peter
>
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