Re: autocomplete - SELECT fx

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: autocomplete - SELECT fx
Date: 2012-07-08 00:43:24
Message-ID: 20120708004324.GA25760@tornado.leadboat.com
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 06:43:09PM -0700, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > I tested Peter's patch and it works well.
>
> I liked it as well. But I'm not sure what should happen with the patch
> now. It seems like it'd be commit-ready with just a tweak or two to
> the query as I noted in my last mail, but Tom did seem opposed[1] to
> the idea in the first thread, and no one else has spoken up recently
> in favor of the idea, so maybe it should just be marked Rejected or
> Returned with Feedback?

I like the patch, as far as it goes. It's the natural addition to the
completions we already offer; compare the simplistic completion after WHERE.
Like Pavel and Robert, I think a delightful implementation of tab completion
for SELECT statements would require radical change.

Thanks,
nm

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