Hi hackers, As not much preliminary interest seem to be here, I'm sending the patch to the upcoming commitfest
-- best regards, Mikhail A. Gribkov On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 12:51 AM Mikhail Gribkov <youzh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > -- > best regards, > Mikhail A. Gribkov >