Re: [PATCH] support tab-completion for single quote input with equal sign

torikoshia <torikoshia(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> writes:
> I updated the patch going along with the v3 direction.

I think this adds about as many failure modes as it removes,
if not more.

* The connection string doesn't necessarily end with "'"; it could
be a dollar-quoted string.

* If it is a dollar-quoted string, there could be "'" marks internal
to it, allowing PUBLICATION to be falsely offered when we're really
still within the connection string.

* The following WITH options could contain "'", allowing PUBLICATION
to be falsely offered within that clause.

I've spent some effort previously on getting tab-completion to deal
sanely with single-quoted strings, but everything I've tried has
crashed and burned :-(, mainly because it's not clear when to take
the whole literal as one "word" and when not. A relevant example
here is that somebody might wish that we could tab-complete within
the connection string, e.g. that

CREATE SUBSCRIPTION sub CONNECTION 'db<TAB>

would complete with "name=". We have the info available from libpq
to do that, if only we could figure out when to apply it. I think
we need some pretty fundamental design work to figure out what we
want to do in this area, and that in the meantime putting band-aids
on specific cases is probably not very productive.

regards, tom lane