On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:50:31AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> We support the various psql/describe.c features against old servers,
> so it would be quite inconsistent for tab completion not to work
> similarly. There are some gaps in that already, as per the other
> thread, but we should clean those up not add more.
I'll try to study this thread a bit more as I lack context. So I'll
reply there. What I am scared of is that Tomas Munro has done a heroic
effort to increase the readability of psql's tab completion during the
dev cycle of 9.6. And it would be sad to reduce the quality of this
code.
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Michael