Re: psql tab completion enhancements

I will adjust this patch based on later feedback emails.

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews
and approves it.

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Joachim Wieland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> psql's tab completion has the following problem:
>
> If we have the following syntax for example:
>
> SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION <user>;
> SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION DEFAULT;
>
> After "SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION", the tab completion can offer a list of
> roles or the string constant "DEFAULT". However it can't offer both because
> it can't get a list of roles and add a string constant to this list.
>
> The appended patch adds the functionality of lists that can be extended with
> constants.
>
> Then you get:
>
> template1=# SET session AUTHORIZATION <tab>
> DEFAULT fred joe john
>
> I did proof-of-concept examples to add a constant to a
>
> - list from a query
> - list from a schema query
> - list of table attributes
>
>
> Joachim
>

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