On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 4:14 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Um, well, that's the same behavior you were seeing before. > So the terminfo reinstall didn't really do anything.
Sigh. > I'm still curious about which terminfo file your psql actually > reads if TERM is unset, and whether that file is visibly > different from the xterm-related files. I've found the actual problem -- it's my ~/.inputrc. Which is read in by libreadline at some point (determined this using ltrace). Once I comment out the following two lines from ~/.inputrc, everything works fine on HEAD + HEAD-unset-TERM-in-tab-completion-test.patch: set colored-completion-prefix on set colored-stats on -- Peter Geoghegan
