Francisco Reyes <lists(at)natserv(dot)com> writes:
> Today I was using \e to edit the buffer, something I don't commonly do.
> Somehow that screwed up my help file for psql.
> When I do \?
> instead of getting help for the slash commands I get
> [junk]
> Any thoughts?
The \? command just prints out a bunch of constant strings. The only
theory that comes to mind is that you mistakenly overwrote the file
of translated messages --- are you using a translation?
regards, tom lane