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Re: Correct handling of blank/commented lines in PSQL interactive-mode history

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-09-17T09:11:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 07.09.21 21:16, Tom Lane wrote:
> [ this is a digression from the main point of the thread, but ... ]
> 
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>> I am particularly bothered by the uselessness
>> that M-# results in -- namely, inserting a # at the start of the buffer.
> 
> Fixing that might be as simple as the attached.  I've not beat on
> it hard though.

I see this in my .inputrc, although I don't remember when/how I put it 
there:

$if psql
set comment-begin --
set expand-tilde on
$endif

Commits

  1. psql: initialize comment-begin setting to a useful value by default.

  2. psql: treat "--" comments between queries as separate history entries.

  3. psql: include intra-query "--" comments in what's sent to the server.