On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Beena Emerson <memissemer...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I think the following change in tab-complete.c would do the trick.
> >
> > - else if (Matches1("ALTER"))
> > + else if (TailMatches1("ALTER"))
>
> Nope. This change breaks a bunch of subcommands, take for example
> ALTER TABLE foo ALTER, which would be completed to all the potential
> objects of ALTER commands with your patch, but in this case for
> example we just need to look at the column names, CONSTRAINT and
> COLUMN. CREATE is not part of any subcommands so that's easy to see it
> work with \h. What I think you should do is making the code path of
> \\h smarter with some exceptions by using TailMatchesCS2() for ALTER.
> There is as well the case of DROP commands that should be treated by
> the way.
>
>
I feared the same.
I will check this.
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Thank you,
Beena Emerson
Have a Great Day!
