Re: Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)

From: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Tab completion not working on OSX Lion (10.7.3)
Date: 2012-04-13 19:04:46
Message-ID: 4F8878CE.3050703@pinpointresearch.com
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On 04/13/2012 10:27 AM, Bryan Hughes wrote:
> Prior to updating my Snow Leopard Mac to OSX Lion (10.7.3), I was able
> to open psql from a terminal and then use "tab complete" to
> auto-complete table or field names (i.e., "select * from [TAB -- list
> of table names]"). Unfortunately, something appears to have changed
> and tab complete now does nothing.
>
> Does anyone know of a fix for this problem?
Not familiar with PostgreSQL on Mac but I believe that tab-complete
requires readline support so perhaps you ended up with a psql without
readline or you are missing some necessary libraries.

Cheers,
Steve

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