Re: Autocomplete <TAB> on Postgres7.4beta5 not working?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Autocomplete <TAB> on Postgres7.4beta5 not working?
Date: 2003-10-28 22:09:35
Message-ID: 28772.1067378975@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> AFAICT there was no discussion about this issue when the patch was
>> proposed and applied. But now that the point is raised I have to say
>> that I don't like this change. I don't think system catalogs should be
>> excluded from tab completion. They never were before 7.4, and I have
>> not seen anyone complaining about that, other than Ian.
>>
>> Comments anyone?

> No one commented on it so it was applied --- now that we have two people
> who don't like it, seems we should back it out.

Not the whole patch, certainly, since it added a bunch of other good
stuff. I just want to take out the discrimination against pg_catalog.
(BTW, the code also discriminates against pg_toast, but that part I
don't have a problem with.)

regards, tom lane

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