Re: COPY (... tab completion

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COPY (... tab completion
Date: 2016-01-19 14:38:42
Message-ID: 20429.1453214322@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> This patch makes me wonder: are we going to nuke the grammar "COPY [
> BINARY ] table_name" at some point? This was used up to 7.3.

I'm not particularly in a hurry to remove obsolete syntaxes, as long as
they're not blocking forward progress in some way. However, it seems
to me that it would certainly make sense to remove tab-completion support
for long-deprecated syntax.

regards, tom lane

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