| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: psql tab completion for SELECT |
| Date: | 2012-02-10 15:20:27 |
| Message-ID: | 13612.1328887227@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> That seems pretty nearly entirely bogus. What is the argument for
>> supposing that the word right after SELECT is a function name?
> It isn't necessarily, but it might be. It'd certainly be nice to type:
> SELECT pg_si<TAB>
> and get:
> SELECT pg_size_pretty(
Yeah, and then you'll type
SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_dat<TAB>
and get nothing, and curse the authors of such a misbegotten incomplete
concept that leads your fingers to rely on something that doesn't work
where it should.
I'm not against tab-completing functions, if people think that's
useful. I am against tab-completing them in 1% of use-cases, which is
what this patch accomplishes. The fact that it's short doesn't make it
good.
regards, tom lane
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