Turns out it was an errant line in a my psqlrc file that customised the prompt.. doh. Thanks anyway. On 10/05/2013, at 1:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Brett Haydon <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On OSX terminal, when I try and access psql history the historical line is only partially visible sometimes mixed with the last line executed, and the start position of the cursor moves about 15-20 chars in. The line still executes correctly, but it's driving me nuts. Google was not my friend. Any ideas? > > What that sounds like is that you're running psql with the wrong value > of the TERM environment variable, so that it's guessing wrong about what > control characters to send for terminal cursor positioning. Try > "echo $TERM" and see what you get. On my Mac laptop, it seems to > default to "xterm" and I get good results from that. > > regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
