Re: Tab completion of SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Tab completion of SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION
Date: 2006-02-01 01:18:33
Message-ID: 200602010118.k111IXT21588@candle.pha.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> It could read all the SET variables in at startup?

Right, but do we want to do that even if they never ask for a tab
completion? I think the easiest might be to just save the list on first
tab call.

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> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Some time ago, the tab completion code for the SET command was changed to read
> > the list of available settings from the pg_settings table. This means that
> > by the time you're done completing SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION, you've already
> > sent a query and the command will be disallowed. It's not a major issue, but
> > I figured I'd mention it since it confused me a while ago. If someone has an
> > ingenious plan for working around this, let me know.
> >
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