Re: BUG #4040: psql should provide option to not prompt for password

* Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> [2008-03-17 15:43]:
> Hmm, why do you need to connect to a database? Some time ago I came up
> with this:
>
> _postgres()
> {
> local cur;
> COMPREPLY=()
> cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
> prev=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}
> if [ "$prev" == "-c" ]; then
> COMPREPLY=($(compgen -S= -onospace -W '`command postgres --describe-config | cut -d" " -f1`' -- $cur));
> return 0
> fi
> COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W '-A -B -c -d -D -e -E -F -N -o -P -s -S -f -i -O -t -W --describe-config --help --version' -- $cur))
> return 0
> }
> complete -F _postgres postgres postmaster
>
> What else do you need?

The idea was to do completion for psql, in particular of usernames and
databases. See my other mail for details.

Regards,
Mika