Re: Command-line client sometimes misinterprets tabs for nulls

On Tuesday 27 August 2002 01:48 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Turn off readline (psql -n).  For someone accustomed to tab completion,
> the above is about as sensible as demanding we disable backspace.

Right, my original build of postgres did not have tab completion support as=
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did not have readline (a notice at the end of the configure script would ha=
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been nice, maybe a summary of what will and won't be supported?).  However,=
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love the command-line history, so readline was a must ;).

> It would be nice if we could distinguish pasted tabs from manually-typed
> tabs, but I'm not aware of any way that psql could tell the difference.

Can tab completion be disabled without disabling command line history?  I=
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noticed -n disables both.  I would gladly trade tab completion for tab=20
pastability, but I rely heavily on command line history.

Thanks,

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