On 07/17/2013 02:50 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Hackers,
>
> We've seen this before:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b42b73150906271019k6212ba71u6263bc43a8ec8e94@mail.gmail.com
>
> I've run across this again, and am posting it here just in case someone
> should be struck by some amazing inspiration on where the problem might
> be. Here's the issue:
>
> Pasting text blocks over 100 lines into psql running in
> a terminal causes lines to be arbitrarily truncated, mangling
> the query or function.
[snip]
>
> It seems like we're having some kind of bizarre interaction of psql's
> readline/libedit hooks and specific terminals or library versions, but
> darned if I can even figure out where to look. If anybody has
> inspiration strike, please post!
>
What happens when you do this with "psql -n" ? My suspicion is it's the
tab completion code, which I occasionally find it useful to disable this
way - sadly one can't do that on the fly AFAIK.
cheers
andrew
