Comments on: GQLPlus – Command Line Goodness

By: jtal

jtal — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:43:16 +0000

gqlplus hangs at connected if anything in your ~/.sqlplus/login.sql attempts to alter the sqlplus prompt. Including SET SQLPROMPT.

By: Zdenek

Zdenek — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:19:41 +0000

Simon, you can read in README: “gqlplus hangs if glogin.sql and/or login.sql files contain the `pause’ or `set pause on’ statements.”
If you haven’t tried it, try to erase ’set pause on’ from these files. It works. You can set ‘pause on’ later in prompt.

By: Simon Adler

Simon Adler — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:07:44 +0000

It does sound cool, but I haven’t been able to get it to work on Linux with Oracle 10.2.0.3. It just hangs upon connecting and never gets to the SQL prompt. I compiled the source and tried again, but same result. I would say it’s not ready for prime-time and probably never will be. Try rlwrap instead.

By: laurent schneider

laurent schneider — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:01:46 +0000

Not sure if the latest release works with 10g. It crashes quite often, for example if your database is mounted not open, or you do not have enough permission (let’s say no permission on all_tab_columns), so it is not stable enough to be used on a production site, but it is still very fun.

I switched to rlwrap a long time ago, but rlwrap has no table completion. Well, table completion almost never worked