Re: IF (NOT) EXISTS in psql-completion

Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> So I'd be a whole lot happier if it didn't do that. Can we really not
>> add the desired features in a more localized fashion?

> As "if not exists" is defined after the object type if would not be
> that complicated to add completion for IE/INE after the object type
> with a set of THING_* flags in words_after_create. One missing piece
> would be to add completion for the objects themselves after IE or INE
> have been entered by the user, but I would think that tweaking the
> checks on words_after_create[i] would be doable as well. And that
> would be localized.

BTW ... can anyone explain to me the reason why we offer to complete
CREATE OBJECT with the names of existing objects of that kind?
That seems pretty darn stupid. I can see offering the names of existing
schemas there, if the object type is one that has schema-qualified names,
but completing with an existing object name is just setting up to fail
isn't it?

If we dropped that behavior, seems like it would become much easier
to plug in IF NOT EXISTS at those spots.

regards, tom lane