Re: Return of "can't paste into psql" issue

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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> On 07/17/2013 02:50 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
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>> Hackers,
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>> We've seen this before:
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>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b42b73150906271019k6212ba71u6263bc43a8ec8e94@mail.gmail.com
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>> I've run across this again, and am posting it here just in case someone
>> should be struck by some amazing inspiration on where the problem might
>> be. Here's the issue:
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>> Pasting text blocks over 100 lines into psql running in
>> a terminal causes lines to be arbitrarily truncated, mangling
>> the query or function.
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> [snip]
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>> It seems like we're having some kind of bizarre interaction of psql's
>> readline/libedit hooks and specific terminals or library versions, but
>> darned if I can even figure out where to look. If anybody has
>> inspiration strike, please post!
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> What happens when you do this with "psql -n" ? My suspicion is it's the tab
> completion code, which I occasionally find it useful to disable this way -
> sadly one can't do that on the fly AFAIK.

huh -- you're right.

merlin