Re: psql tab completion for SELECT

2012/2/10 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>>> That seems pretty useful, and it's more or less a one-line change, as in
>>> the attached patch.
>>
>> That seems pretty nearly entirely bogus.  What is the argument for
>> supposing that the word right after SELECT is a function name?  I would
>> think it would be a column name (from who-knows-what table) much more
>> often.
>
> It isn't necessarily, but it might be.  It'd certainly be nice to type:
>
> SELECT pg_si<TAB>
>
> and get:
>
> SELECT pg_size_pretty(

+1

Pavel

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