From: | Mikhail Gribkov <youzhick(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Fixing tab-complete for dollar-names |
Date: | 2023-06-16 21:51:30 |
Message-ID: | CAMEv5_sTAvPvhye+u4jkWDe5UGDiQ1ZkQomnKCboM08zDzOe=g@mail.gmail.com |
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Hi hackers,
In modern versions of Postgres the dollar sign is a totally legal character
for identifiers (except for the first character), but tab-complete do not
treat such identifiers well.
For example if one try to create an Oracle-style view like this:
create view v$activity as select * from pg_stat_activity;
, he will get a normally functioning view, but psql tab-complete will not
help him. Type "v", "v$" or "v$act" and press <TAB> - nothing will be
suggested.
Attached is a small patch fixing this problem.
Honestly I'm a little surprised that this was not done before. Maybe, there
are some special considerations I am not aware of, and the patch will break
something?
What would you say?
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best regards,
Mikhail A. Gribkov
Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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v001_fix_dollar_names_tab_complete.patch | application/octet-stream | 749 bytes |
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