Thread: shell environment control within psql

I'm on sun solaris 2.8 with postgres 7.2.  I run bash, and use VT102
terminal emulation when I'm connected to this server.  When I'm at the
command line, I can use the backspace key, and the arrows. However,
when I type "psql db" to get into the postgres shell.... none of these
work.  The arrow keys are especially frustrating...

by not working, I mean:
backspace:  ^H
left arrow: ^[[D
right arrow:^[[C
up arrow:   ^[[A
down arrow: ^[[B

the delete key works, and ctrl+backspace works as a delete as well.
but I'd really like that functionality.

any thoughts?
Myke

On Thursday 31 Oct 2002 5:26 pm, climbingboulder wrote:
> I'm on sun solaris 2.8 with postgres 7.2.  I run bash, and use VT102
> terminal emulation when I'm connected to this server.  When I'm at the
> command line, I can use the backspace key, and the arrows. However,
> when I type "psql db" to get into the postgres shell.... none of these
> work.  The arrow keys are especially frustrating...

Is "readline" support compiled into your version of PG? I think you need the
GNU readline libs which might need downloading for Solaris. Search the
archives and docs for details.

--
  Richard Huxton