Re: psql case preserving completion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fujii Masao
Subject Re: psql case preserving completion
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Msg-id CAHGQGwFkTWOFK4P1y7VBXqLdu_4ZN8b138736waoMm4c4y5E0A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to psql case preserving completion  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: psql case preserving completion  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> In psql, the tab completion always converts key words to upper case.  In
> practice, I and I think most users type in lower case.  So then you end
> up with commands looking like this:
>
> => alter TABLE foo add CONSTRAINT bar check (a > 0);
>
> To address this, I have implemented a slightly different completion mode
> that looks at the word being completed and converts the completed word
> to the case of the original word.  (Well, it looks at the first letter.)
>
> In fact, since almost all completions in psql are of this nature, I made
> this the default mode for COMPLETE_WITH_CONST and COMPLETE_WITH_LIST and
> added a new macro COMPLETE_WITH_LIST_CS that uses the old case-sensitive
> behavior. The latter is used mainly for completing backslash commands.
>
> After playing with this a little, I find the behavior more pleasing.
> Less yelling. ;-)
>
> Patch attached.

When I tested the patch, "create ta" was converted unexpectedly to
"create TABLE"
though "alter ta" was successfully converted to "alter table". As far
as I read the patch,
you seems to have forgotten to change create_or_drop_command_generator() or
something.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center


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