Re: [HACKERS] psql and Control-C

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-02-17T20:25:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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> Some people have indicated that they don't like how psql currently handles
> Control-C if no query is in progress. I consider the behaviour of the
> shells desirable but, quite frankly, I don't know how to do it.
> 
> For some reason a readline'd session always wants me to press one more key
> after Control-C before getting back to a clean prompt. A much bigger
> problem is that if I don't use/have readline then I don't see a way to
> preempt the fgets() call.
> 
> So unless someone has a hint or wants to look at it, I could offer
> ignoring the signal altogether in interactive mode, and perhaps make it
> stop scripts in the other case. (Leaving the query cancelling as is, of
> course.)
> 
> Actually, shouldn't a Ctrl-C in a script cancel the query *and* stop the
> script at all times?

Seems we can just ignore ^C if a query is not being run.  Is that OK
with everyone.  Looks easy to do.

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