Re: TABLE tab completion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: TABLE tab completion
Date
Msg-id 20110926122946.GA22441@fetter.org
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In response to Re: TABLE tab completion  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:37:50AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 15:06, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 24 September 2011 11:59, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> >> TABLE tab completion in psql only completes to tables, not views. but
> >> the TABLE command works fine for both tables and views (and also
> >> sequences).
> >>
> >> Seems we should just complete it to relations and not tables - or can
> >> anyone see a particular reason why we shouldn't?
> >>
> >
> > Doesn't that mean that "DROP TABLE <tab>" would offer up views as well
> > as tables, which would be incorrect?
> 
> Meh - you are correct, of course. I guess that's why we have code review :-)
> 
> So - not a oneliner, but how about something like this?
> 
> (Happy to have someone point out a neater way of doing it, not
> entirely fluent in how we do the tab completion..)

That's pretty much it.  Should it also (eventually) do SRFs?

Cheers,
David.
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