On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Greg Stark<gsstark@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Merlin Moncure<mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> It doesn't matter the source application...it borks regardless if I >> copy from Source insight/wine (my normal editor), gedit, or another >> gnome terminal. > > Are these all gtk apps? Try pasting from an emacs or xterm? copying from xterm to gtk I can't seem to get working...I can copy _to_ xterm, but not from it (sigh). Anyways, that doesn't explain why the only terminal program that gets garbled is psql. On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I confirmed that xterm does not exhibit the issue. So this is at >> least partially a terminal problem. However, xterm does not directly >> accept pastes from wine clipboard apparently. it only works if I copy >> it to gedit first, then into xterm. > >> The _only_ terminal application that exhibits this behavior is psql. >> specifically, vim does not. > > FWIW, I have noticed a limitation on how much can be pasted into psql > without freezing it (not more than a few hundred characters, for me). > It's not "garbled" ... psql just gets stuck and has to be SIGTERM'd. > However, there's enough stuff in the chain that I'm not sure > psql/readline is (solely) to blame --- I'm typically working through > a remote xterm over an ssh'd X11 connection. I'm starting to feel like my problems start appearing at a very fixed size (like you, a few hundred or so). Do you see this in other programs (bash, vim, etc)? or only psql? merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
