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Asked: 2011-04-02 07:38:22 +0800 CST

Postgres shell logout weirdness on debian

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So, strangest thing happening on Debian PostgreSQL user:

lab3:~# su - postgres
postgres@lab3:~$ plogout
lab3:~#

And:

lab3:~# su postgres
postgres@lab3:/root$ pexit
lab3:~#

What is happening here? Well, if right after I use su to change to the postgres user, using su - or su, I press p (like I was going to write psql) I get logged out by logout or exit. That doesn't happen if I press enter and then press p on the line below, it only happens if the first thing I press is p. Apparently it happens with any character, but sometimes it fails on e or a.

Are you asking WHAAAAAT? Yeah. Me too. This is happening on all our Debian Lenny machines but not on at least one Squeeze we have.

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