Terminal completion

Emmanuel Quevillon wrote:

Hi,

I have a basic question about pg client. I know it is possible to let pg
complete the name of a table by pressing the arrow key.

It's the Tab key by default, which might be what you're referring to. I
can't remember what (if anything) French keyboards have on them.

But
unfortunately I can't do it while I am connected to pg (8.2) from a
gnome terminal.
Also the history does not work for me when I press up arraow key.

If it works in your console but not Gnome, then it's worth checking what
terminal it thinks it is - echo $TERM. Mine says "xterm". It's also
worth testing some other applications with readline support and see if
their history/completion

If it doesn't work in the console too, it's probably a problem with your
readline library.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

Richard Huxton wrote:

Emmanuel Quevillon wrote:

Hi,

I have a basic question about pg client. I know it is possible to let
pg complete the name of a table by pressing the arrow key.

It's the Tab key by default, which might be what you're referring to.

Yep.

But
unfortunately I can't do it while I am connected to pg (8.2) from a
gnome terminal.
Also the history does not work for me when I press up arraow key.

If it works in your console but not Gnome, then it's worth checking what
terminal it thinks it is - echo $TERM. Mine says "xterm". It's also
worth testing some other applications with readline support and see if
their history/completion

It does not work either gnome-terminal or xterm...

If it doesn't work in the console too, it's probably a problem with your
readline library.

I think that's the problem, I compiled postgres wihtout
readline... --without-readline

Thanks!

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Emmanuel Quevillon
Biological Software and Databases Group
Institut Pasteur
+33 1 44 38 95 98
tuco at_ pasteur dot fr
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