Stuart Grimshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Can anyone explain why my cursor keys don't work in psql?
>
> When I press one I get Up = ^[[A down = ^[[B etc.
>
> The last company I used to work for had the cursor keys working OK to
> scroll back through queries and cycle up & down through the last queries
> executed, so what might my problem be?
It sounds like your version of Postgres wasn't compiled with readline
libraries. You (or your system administrator) will need to re-compile
and make sure that the libraries are installed on your system and
found by the Postgres configure script during installation.
-Tony
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