Re: patch: psql variables tabcomplete

2010/10/11 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> 2010/10/4 Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>>> We don't have commands for display a list of such variables and \echo is
>>> not tab-completed even with the patch. "Only supported by \set" might be
>>> a bit unbalanced.
>
>> it's good idea. I looked on it - and it is job for other patch. Some
>> test are in experimental patch. But this needs more work - output is
>> little bit ugly - I thing so prefix and suffix should not be showed.
>
> I went ahead and applied this (with some cleanup).  I don't see a very
> good reason why the prefix/suffix shouldn't be shown in the completion
> data --- after all, that *is* what it's going to type for you.  In any
> case, preventing that would take some fundamental hacking of the
> readline interface; which would be way more work than it's worth,
> and probably not very portable across the different versions of
> readline either.  So I think we should just be happy with this
> behavior.

I write it before I looked to readline documentation - personally I
don't feel well from output, but the nice output isn't available with
current readline lib :( - so I agree with you. Thank you very much for
commit

Regards

Pavel

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>                        regards, tom lane
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