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

Mika Fischer wrote:

> I'm currently working on the bash-completion package. The problem with
> postgresql is that psql cannot safely be called because there is no way to
> know whether it will prompt for a password and there is also no way to avoid
> the prompt.

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?

(Hmm, it doesn't work correctly in the french locale ... it seems
someone decided to add some newlines in there.)

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