Turns out it was an errant line in a my psqlrc file that customised the
prompt.. doh.
Thanks anyway.
On 10/05/2013, at 1:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Brett Haydon writes:
>> On OSX terminal, when I try and access psql history the historical line is
>> only partially visible sometimes mixed with
Brett Haydon writes:
> On OSX terminal, when I try and access psql history the historical line is
> only partially visible sometimes mixed with the last line executed, and the
> start position of the cursor moves about 15-20 chars in. The line still
> executes correctly, but it's driving me nut
While I am not all *that* familiar with the Heroku version, it looks a bit like
they are are linking against libreadline instead of libedit in order to
maximize platform compatability with older revisions of OS X (10.6.x). Short
of rebuilding against libedit on 10.8 I don't know that you have a
Using the Heroku PostresApp (9.2.2)
/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/psql
OSX 10.8 default bash shell
This is kinda what I end up with (one line after the other and the cursor in
the middle) though using the down arrow key can add extra lines in completely
messing up the line altog
Several, but most depend upon how you installed. In several of the
installation methods (binary) the default terminal management routine has some
issues (version linked to), but there are several other possible interactions.
Which way did you install? which shell are you using in terminal? wh
On OSX terminal, when I try and access psql history the historical line is only
partially visible sometimes mixed with the last line executed, and the start
position of the cursor moves about 15-20 chars in. The line still executes
correctly, but it's driving me nuts. Google was not my friend. A
