On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 18:53, Ian Barwick wrote: > I have been playing around with psql's "tab-completion.c" and have > something approaching a sane solution for tab expansion of > schema names. As this seems to fall under the todo item "Allow psql to do > table completion for SELECT * FROM schema_part and table completion for > SELECT * FROM schema_name" I would like if possible to "claim" this, at > least for a week or so.
I've been debating a mechanism which could build tab completion tables based on the documentation for a while now -- and was going to give it a try next week. If it works, that file would essentially disappear. It doesn't really change what happens, just the approach. The end goal being a backend independent psql. > In this respect couple of general questions: > - is there any reason why tab expansion of slash commands is > only implemented in a few cases? E.g. for \d but not \di ? > . is there any requirement to maintain any kind of backwards > compatibilty to pre 7.3 clients? Post 7.3 launch most of these cases were cleaned up, not to say some weren't missed. You might want to take a look at CVS-TIP sources. Feel free to send in patches for ones that have been missed. > - pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible() works on non-table relations > as well, right? I would assume so, but haven't checked. -- Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc
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