Re: How to prevent clear screen when query finish ?

On 7 August 2013 18:01, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On 08/07/2013 08:53 AM, Condor wrote:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/app-psql.html
>
> pager
> Controls use of a pager program for query and psql help output. If the
> environment variable PAGER is set, the output is piped to the specified
> program. Otherwise a platform-dependent default (such as more) is used.--
>

If you use less for pager and want this behaviour system-wide, you'll want
to set another env variable: setenv LESS -X (I use tcsh) or export LESS=-X
if you use bash.

That makes less behave properly (not clearing the screen) after closing
man-pages and such.

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