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Question Jeffrey Drumm · Aug 5, 2025

IRIS Terminal Lite / VS Code and $system.SQL.Shell()

It appears as though command history is not available via up/down arrow keyboard keys when using the SQL Shell. Is there anything in the works to change that?

Also, typing the colon character (:) as the first character after the prompt in Terminal Lite does odd things in 2025.1.1 ... every keystroke starting with the colon is echoed back and pressing Enter generates an error:

The red :SQL on the first line was echoed simultaneously as the :SQL in white was typed. Also, it's obvious that aliases don't work in Terminal Lite 😉

Product version: IRIS 2025.1

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Brett Saviano · Aug 5, 2025

@Jeffrey Drumm The Lite Terminal does not support aliases and does not support command history in the SQL shell (or any Read-based input). Please open an issue on GitHub for the text duplication issue when the first charater is a colon.

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