Using readline for frequently used queries - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tim Landscheidt
Subject Using readline for frequently used queries
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Msg-id m37hozywus.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de
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Hi,

depending on the database, I use some "dashboard queries"
rather frequently. To ease executing them, I've put:

| $include /etc/inputrc

| $if psql
| "\e[24~": "\fSELECT * FROM DashboardQuery;\n"
| $endif

in my ~/.inputrc ("\e[24~" is [F12]).

  Obviously, this only works if a) the current line and
b) the query buffer are empty. Before I try and err: Has
anyone put some thought in how to reliably do that? My first
impulse would be C-a, C-k, "\r", C-j, but this doesn't solve
the problem if psql is in "quote mode" (e. g. the previous
line contained an opening "'" or '"').

TIA,
Tim

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