| From: | David <dbree(at)duo-county(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stefan Lidman <lidden(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Switch to Linux Dev Questions |
| Date: | 2006-05-07 01:11:07 |
| Message-ID: | 20060507011107.GA2449@localhost.localdomain |
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On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:05:43AM +0200, Stefan Lidman wrote:
> >up - well, if you are not familiar with the pager, find out what pager
> >is being used (probably "less") and check the manpage for it.
>
> And how do set I it to less?
>
> >From 'man psql':
> If the environment variable PAGER is set, the output is piped to
> the specified program.
>
> I have set that variable in my shell but psql is ignoring it and
> give me more when i want less.
That would probably depend upon your distro. Apparently my psql calls
/usr/bin/pager, which, on my system (Debian) is a symlink to
/etc/alternatives/pager. If this is the case of your system, you should
be able to adjust this with your alternatives system. Mine does the
update-alternatives command.
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