It doesn't appear to be interested in my ~/.inputrc file: -------------- [pkovacs@pokkermann bin]$ grep '\/home\/pkovacs\/\.' f stat64("/home/pkovacs/.pgpass", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=66, ...}) = 0 open("/home/pkovacs/.pgpass", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 access("/home/pkovacs/.psqlrc-8.3.3", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/home/pkovacs/.psqlrc", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/home/pkovacs/.psql_history", O_RDONLY) = 5 stat64("/home/pkovacs/.terminfo", 0xbf8f3a94) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/home/pkovacs/.psql_history", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) = 4 -------------- But looks into /etc/inputrc: -------------- [pkovacs@pokkermann bin]$ grep 'inputrc' f stat64("/etc/inputrc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=758, ...}) = 0 open("/etc/inputrc", O_RDONLY) = 5 -------------- Should I, perhaps, set something in ~/.psqlrc ? Or is there something to set in /etc/inputrc ? Thanks Peter On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Peter Kovacs" <maxottovonstirlitz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> It appears as though psql ignored the settings in my ~/.inputrc file: > > Seems to work for me in 8.3.3. Maybe a permissions problem on your > .inputrc file? If you can't figure it out, one way to attack the > problem is to strace psql startup, then look through the output to > find where it tries to open .inputrc, and see what happens exactly. > > regards, tom lane >