Re: pasting a lot of commands to psql

Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >> You might have better luck with "psql -n", or maybe not.
> >
> > I've wished sometimes for a "\set READLINE off" psql metacommand for
> > this kind of thing. It's pretty annoying when the text being pasted
> > contains tabs and readline uses to do completion.
>
> Agreed. I've looked at this problem extensively and concur that
> readline is the culprit; I don't think there's any solution on our end
> besides filing a bug with the readline. I also agree with the
> upthread suggestion that the best workaround today is to \e into a
> non-readline based editor (vim qualifies). Having said that, at least
> on linux/gnome, very long pastes can cause severe performance issues
> as well. So for large pastes I go with psql -f.

Hmm, I was doing megabyte-long pastes (longest one over 5 MB) just a few
weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised to discover that they worked just
fine with no noticeable performance problem. I was pasting skype logs
directly from the Linux skype client window into an xterm running cat,
with obviously no readline involved.

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