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Subject: Re: psql on Windows systems
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 20:27:40 +0200
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Am 05.07.24 um 20:24 schrieb Zaid Shabbir:
> On which windows platform you are
>
> Have you face the same behaviour with the windows installer ?
> https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads
>
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 at 11:21 PM, Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com> wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Recently I had to use PostgreSQL on a Windows based system, and I was
> surprised that the psql tool behaves differently, when it comes to
> the
> functionality of the readline library.
>
> There is no tab-completion for commands or schema/view/table names.
> Also, browsing through previous commands within the history is
> different
> from the psql version on Linux systems. Only single lines, not
> complete
> commands show up in the history.
>
> This may be due to some library differences, but wouldn't it be
> possible
> to link some powerful readline and tab-completion libraries also on
> Windows systems?
>
> Maybe it's a question for psql developers, should I write on a
> different
> list?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Holger
>
> --
>
> Holger Jakobs, Bergisch Gladbach
>
>
>
Yes, I used the installer by Enterprise DB. It's an ordinary Windows
2022 server, but this doesn't make any difference.
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