On 2022-Jul-08, Tom Lane wrote: > The usual recommendation for pasting text into psql when it contains > tabs is to start psql with the -n switch to disable tab completion.
"Bracketed paste" also solves this problem. To enable this feature, just edit your $HOME/.inputrc file to have the line set enable-bracketed-paste on (then restart psql) which will cause the text passed to be used literally, so the tabs won't invoke tab-completion. There are other side-effects: if you paste a multi-command string, the whole string is added as a single entry in the history rather than being separate entries. I find this extremely useful; there are also claims of this being more secure. -- Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
