Re: psql tab completion for SELECT

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>
Subject: Re: psql tab completion for SELECT
Date: 2012-02-13 21:21:48
Message-ID: 1329168108.5373.8.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tor, 2012-02-09 at 23:02 +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Make tab-completion complete also function names – like: SELECT
> > pg_get<tab><tab> to see all functions that start with pg_get.
> >
> > Make tab-completion work for columns in SELECT. I know that when writing
> > SELECT clause, psql doesn’t know which table it will deal with, but it
> > could search through all the columns in database.
> >
> > That seems pretty useful, and it's more or less a one-line change, as in
> > the attached patch.
>
> Does that includes support for completing SRF functions in the FROM clause?

No, that's an entirely different issue.

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