Re: Unreproducible bug in snapshot import code

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> > > > I have tried reproducing the bug starting from 1 and 2 transactions
> > > before
> > > > the one shown in snippet, and I used tab-completion to get the same
> > > > screen-output as termonal1.txt and yet it's not reproducible.
> > >
> > > I could reproduce it when I typed TAB just after typing "set" in "set
> > > transaction snapshot".
> > > As Tom and Alvaro pointed out, the tab-completion issues a query and
> which
> > > prevents the "set transaction snapshot" command.
> > >
> >
> > Great! That settles it then. Reproducible, but not a bug.
>
> Yes, it is only tabs that query the database for completion that cause
> this. Should this be documented somehow? (No idea how.)
>

If we have a doc section on psql's tab-completion, I think this needs to go
there. A note like:

"Trying to tab-complete on psql may send queries to the server, and
depending on the transaction state, execution of these queries may lead to
non-default/unexpected behaviour by the queries executed after
tab-completion. For example, ..."

Regards,
--
Gurjeet Singh
EnterpriseDB Corporation
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