Re: psql history on OSX terminal

From: Brett Haydon <brett(at)haydon(dot)id(dot)au>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql history on OSX terminal
Date: 2013-05-10 03:38:29
Message-ID: 0E5F0808-EF38-4E1D-A2A3-8B6D2214E938@haydon.id.au
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Turns out it was an errant line in a my psqlrc file that customised the prompt.. doh.

Thanks anyway.

On 10/05/2013, at 1:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Brett Haydon <brett(at)haydon(dot)id(dot)au> writes:
>> On OSX terminal, when I try and access psql history the historical line is only partially visible sometimes mixed with the last line executed, and the start position of the cursor moves about 15-20 chars in. The line still executes correctly, but it's driving me nuts. Google was not my friend. Any ideas?
>
> What that sounds like is that you're running psql with the wrong value
> of the TERM environment variable, so that it's guessing wrong about what
> control characters to send for terminal cursor positioning. Try
> "echo $TERM" and see what you get. On my Mac laptop, it seems to
> default to "xterm" and I get good results from that.
>
> regards, tom lane

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