Re: [HACKERS] Re: tab completion in psql

Then Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE> spoke up and said:
> The tab completion is not very smart, it only covers the really obvious
> cases. Doing FROM shouldn't be so hard, but once you get into WHERE you
> almost end up writing a complete SQL parser just for this. Not that
> there's anything fundamentally wrong with that. It's a very evolving piece
> of code, however; it can only get better. I bet those readline authors
> never had this one in mind. Otherwise readline would play nicer with it.

I've used Python's readline support, and I must say it's really nice
when the readline engine can complete more dynamic names. It would be
very nice if "\d table" or "\dt" populated a dictionary of some kind
which could then be used for completion. While context sensitivity
would be even better, it might be worthwhile to simply have a dynamic
dictionary.

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