Re: tab completion for prepared transactions?

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>>> Right, I vaguely recall that the idea of tab-completion for those
>>>> commands was rejected when 2PC was added because of that. A user sitting
>>>> at a psql terminal is not supposed to prepare a transaction. That's
>>>> application server's business.
>>> I think we should add a C comment documenting that fact.
>> Hmm, I thought we explained that in the manual, but I can't see it. I
>> think we should add a note to the ref page of PREPARE TRANSACTION,
>> something like:
>>
>> "PREPARE TRANSACTION is not intended for use in applications or in
>> interactive sessions. It's purpose is to allow an external transaction
>> manager to perform atomic global transactions across multiple databases
>> or other transactional resources. Unless you're writing a transaction
>> manager, you probably shouldn't be using PREPARE TRANSACTION"
>
> I was thinking of adding something in the psql C source code to explain
> why certain commands are not implemented for tab completion.

Yeah, that's a good idea too.

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