Tom, Vik, all, * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Vik Fearing <vik.fear...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > 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'm not sure exactly how, but I know that some software is able to figure that out (irssi, in particular). Might be just a timing-based heuristic though. > > 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? Seems like a good approach to me. Thanks! Stephen
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