Command-line client sometimes misinterprets tabs for nulls

Let's say I have typed a nice formatted SQL statement like so:

select        b1.blah,
        b1.blah2,
        b2.blah3
from        blah_table as b1
inner join only    blah_table2 as b2
on        b1.blah =3D b2.blah;

...using tabs as the indenting medium.  Now I copy that from my editor into=
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psql, and most of the tabs are converted to nulls, resulting in an error li=
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"Unknown value fromblah_table".  Tabs should paste; they're normal=20
characters.

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