Re: patch to add \watch to psql

Dickson S. Guedes <listas@guedesoft.net>

From: "Dickson S. Guedes" <listas@guedesoft.net>
To: Will Leinweber <will@heroku.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2013-04-04T00:27:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
2013/4/3 Will Leinweber <will@heroku.com>:
> Here is an updated patch that addresses several of the points brought up so
> far, such as the sleep, internationalization banner, and zero wait check,
> and it removes the premature input check.
>
> Unfortunately rl_clear_screen() is not included at all in libedit, causing
> compilation to fail, and I was completely unable to find a way to
> distinguish libedit from readline on OS X. It tries extraordinarily hard to
> pretend that it's readline. Instead falling back to simple control
> characters to clear the screen worked very well on both linux and OS X.

I don't have access to an OSX box ATM but term_clear_screen(), in
libedit, didn't help?

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