Re: Query Auto Completion

Hi

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:23 PM Avin Kavish <avinkavish(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Hackers,
>
> One major improvement I can think of for pgAdmin is query auto completion.
> In the Jetbrains IDEs, the database console does smart completion using
> relation and column names and even completes the join based on references.
>
> For example, to get the query below I only had to type "s * f ma ij mo"
> (with enters in between)
> [image: Screenshot from 2019-07-25 15-40-35.jpg]
>
>
Are you aware that there is already an auto-complete feature? When you want
to auto-complete something, just hit Ctrl+Space for options which will
popup in a menu.

> I'm predominantly a front end developer and willing to take a crack at
> this.
>

Cool - we'd be happy to take improvements. For example, there was a request
a short while ago to have the auto complete menu appear automatically if
configured to do so (if memory serves).

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