Re: psql and readline

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Alexander M(dot) Pravking" <fduch(at)antar(dot)bryansk(dot)ru>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql and readline
Date: 2003-01-08 17:19:03
Message-ID: 4690.1042046343@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Alexander M. Pravking" <fduch(at)antar(dot)bryansk(dot)ru> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:53:51AM +0100, Ian Barwick wrote:
>> On Wednesday 08 January 2003 07:55, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>> Is there any way of making the 'up' arrow retrieve all of the last
>>> multiline query, instead of just the last line? It's really annoying
>>> working with large multiline queries at the moment...
>>
>> Not that I know of, but you can use \e to edit the query in your
>> favourite editor.

> Sure. But \e puts "\e" into history, instead of the query itself :(

Hm, so it does. It seems like the edited query should go into history,
at least when you execute it. Peter, is this fixable?

regards, tom lane

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