Results are appearing in a new window

Description

The result opens in a new window rather than the current window. So every time I run a query I have to close the new window(press q) to get back to writing queries. Please see attached screencast. The results used to show in the current window but after a system update a couple of months ago it started showing results in a new window.

Your environment

python 3.6.3

Tried it in bash and zsh. Tried using fresh bashrc. Tried a different terminal emulator.

• OS: Arch Linux (4.13.12-1-ARCH)
• pgcli version: 1.8.1
• pip freeze output:

backports.csv==1.0.5
cli-helpers==0.2.3
click==6.7
configobj==5.0.6
humanize==0.5.1
pgcli==1.8.1
pgspecial==1.9.0
prompt-toolkit==1.0.15
psycopg2==2.7.3.2
Pygments==2.2.0
setproctitle==1.1.10
six==1.11.0
sqlparse==0.2.4
terminaltables==3.1.0
wcwidth==0.1.7

[amjith]

Yup. That is the pager. @lutzhorn was right on the money. The good news is you can configure that pager to do what the pgcli demo does. Looks like you’re using the latest version of pgcli. If you open up your config file (~/.config/pgcli/config) you’ll see a line that is commented out: https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/blob/master/pgcli/pgclirc#L79

Just uncomment the line and restart pgcli and viola.

If that line doesn’t exist in your config file just copy that line into the config file and uncomment it, and you’ll be good to go.

Older versions of pgcli used to enforce that config option, but it is generally frowned upon to mess with a user’s environment vars. So we decided to make it an option.

I hope that helps.

[j-bennet]

@vjpr It’s just that pgcli and mycli stopped overriding less options if those are already set in the environment, because that was intrusive. Now LESS is only set if it’s unset. For more information, see here:

http://www.mycli.net/pager

But it’s possible to use export LESS="-XFR", or override the pager in pgclirc like @amjith mentioned above, to get the same behavior as before.