Thread: Is there any way to turn off tab completion in psql?

Is there any way to turn off tab completion in psql? I'm trying to paste in a view definition that has tabs in it, but they are being intercepted

I'm not really familiar with psql that's why I did a little research on your question:

psql supports the Readline library for convenient line editing and retrieval. The command history is automatically saved when psql exits and is reloaded when psql starts up. Tab-completion is also supported, although the completion logic makes no claim to be an SQL parser. If for some reason you do not like the tab completion, you can turn it off by putting this in a file named .inputrc in your home directory:

$if psql
set disable-completion on
$endif

(This is not a psql but a Readline feature. Read its documentation for further details.)

source:www[dot]postgresql[dot]org/docs/8.3/static/app-psql.html