Re: Support tab completion for upper character inputs in psql

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: Support tab completion for upper character inputs in psql
Date: 2022-01-31 21:39:01
Message-ID: 838381.1643665141@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> =?utf-8?Q?Dagfinn_Ilmari_Manns=C3=A5ker?= <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org> writes:
>> First, as noted in the test, it doesn't preserve the case of the input
>> for keywords appended to the query result. This is easily fixed by
>> using `pg_strdup_keyword_case()`, per the first attached patch.

> I thought about that, and intentionally didn't do it, because it
> would also affect the menus produced by tab completion.
> ...
> We could do something hacky like matching case only when there's
> no longer any matching object names, but that might be too magic.

I experimented with that, and it actually doesn't seem as weird
as I feared. See if you like this ...

regards, tom lane

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