Re: use of <END> in psql

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:03:28AM -0800, Dianne Yumul wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >Luis P. Mendes wrote:
> >>When I connect to a database via psql and do a select * from table; I
> >>get the first page of results, considering \pset pager is on.
> >>
> >>In Debian, I can press the <end> key to go directly to the last
> >>results
> >>or I can use <page up> or <page down> to move across the results.
> >>
> >>In the Slackware system, I can't do that. Can someone explain how to
> >>activate this function?
> >
> >Sounds like the PAGER is set differently on the two systems.
>
> I have the same issue too. I can only use the space bar to go down
> the results, page up and down keys do not work and neither does the
> end key.
>
> I have Postgresql 8.0.6, FC 4.

This is almost certainly not a PostgreSQL issue. Either the PAGER
environment variable is set differently, or there's some issue with
less/more/whatever you're using.
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