.psql_history file is messed up and control-r does not work
My .psql_history contains lines of the form.
select\040sum(price)\040from\040products\040p\040join\040
My psql client is 9.1.2 on Mac OS and server is linux 9.0.5
Is the version mismatch messing up this .psql_history file?
Also control-r to search the history isn't working at psql prompt from
Mac although it does work if I log in to server where client and
server are the same version.
Thanks for any assistance in this issue.
mr. wu
zhong ming wu <mr.z.m.wu@gmail.com> writes:
My .psql_history contains lines of the form.
select\040sum(price)\040from\040products\040p\040join\040
Yeah, that's what it will look like if psql is using Apple's libedit
library; it's unrelated to the server.
I think libedit doesn't support control-r either, not totally sure
though. In any case there are some known bugs in libedit that Apple's
not been terribly swift to fix. I'd suggest installing GNU readline
and linking psql against that instead.
regards, tom lane
Yeah, that's what it will look like if psql is using Apple's libedit
library; it's unrelated to the server.I think libedit doesn't support control-r either, not totally sure
though. In any case there are some known bugs in libedit that Apple's
not been terribly swift to fix. I'd suggest installing GNU readline
and linking psql against that instead.
Thanks. compiling with readline solves both problems.