| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Everaldo Canuto <everaldo(dot)canuto(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: proposal: alternative psql commands quit and exit |
| Date: | 2018-01-14 01:31:26 |
| Message-ID: | 3338.1515893486@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> After re-reading the thread, I think the original patch is optimal.
Hm, few other people thought that.
> In particular, I currently hate how pasting a query with tabs screws
> everything up with unhelpful completions. I don't want to add to that
> with the column example Tom exposed in [1] and especially with the
> plpgsql example Vladimir Svedov exposed in [2].
That seems like sort of an independent problem, though. I wonder
whether it's possible to find out from libreadline that the input
text came from a paste rather than being typed.
> I quite like the idea of blanking the database name in PROMPT2 as
> suggested by Daniel in [3], I would be happy to work on that patch if
> others agree.
I think that the part of that about inserting a line number is important.
What about combining the two ideas: in PROMPT2, the database name is
*replaced* by a line number, while (trying to) keep the width the same?
regards, tom lane
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