Re: History in the postgres monitor

You need to have readline installed to be able to use the command history

HTH

adam

> Hello everybody,
>
> I installed SuSE Linux 8.1 with bash shell.
> When I am in the console I can retrieve the
> last command by pressing the up arrowkey and
> the autocomplete function works with the tab key
> as normal. This works fine in the mysql monitor
> too, but not in the postgres monitor.
> When i start it by typing "psql test" then i
> get strange typings when i press the arrow keys.
> What could this be?
> So I must retype every SQL-Statement from the
> beginning, if I made a wrong type.
>
> I installed the Version 7.2.3 of Postgres right
> now with the default settings:
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> initdb
> and so on.
>
> Thanx
> Michael Walzl
>
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