Re: pasting a lot of commands to psql

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> You might have better luck with "psql -n", or maybe not.
>
> I've wished sometimes for a "\set READLINE off" psql metacommand for
> this kind of thing.  It's pretty annoying when the text being pasted
> contains tabs and readline uses to do completion.

Agreed.  I've looked at this problem extensively and concur that
readline is the culprit; I don't think there's any solution on our end
besides filing a bug with the readline.  I also agree with the
upthread suggestion that the best workaround today is to \e into a
non-readline based editor (vim qualifies).  Having said that, at least
on linux/gnome, very long pastes can cause severe performance issues
as well.  So for large pastes I go with psql -f.

merlin