| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Edmund Horner <ejrh00(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PATCH: psql tab completion for SELECT |
| Date: | 2021-10-14 04:19:06 |
| Message-ID: | 726658.1634185146@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Edmund Horner <ejrh00(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 20:01, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>> What precisely is this supposed to do?
> The main patch 0001 was to add completion for "SELECT <tab>" using
> attributes, functions, and a couple of hard-coded options.
This sort of thing has been proposed a few times, but never made it to
commit, because there's basically no way to limit the completions to a
usefully small set of possibilities. SQL wasn't designed to make this
easy :-(
> Regarding testing, I can't see any automated tests for tab completion.
src/bin/psql/t/010_tab_completion.pl
regards, tom lane
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