Re: Command-line client sometimes misinterprets tabs for

The problem is that most items in postgresql are tab completed.

Cut and past your text into a bash or zsh prompt.  It injects a bunch of
filenames into your data, as per tab completion.

Annoying, but for the benefits it's livable.


Perhaps a toggle could be created to disable tab completion?

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 23:36, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
> Let's say I have typed a nice formatted SQL statement like so:
>
> select        b1.blah,
>         b1.blah2,
>         b2.blah3
> from        blah_table as b1
> inner join only    blah_table2 as b2
> on        b1.blah = b2.blah;
>
> ...using tabs as the indenting medium.  Now I copy that from my editor into
> psql, and most of the tabs are converted to nulls, resulting in an error like
> "Unknown value fromblah_table".  Tabs should paste; they're normal
> characters.
>
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