Hi hackers,
In modern versions of Postgres the dollar sign is a totally legal character for identifiers (except for the first character), but tab-complete do not treat such identifiers well.
For example if one try to create an Oracle-style view like this:
create view v$activity as select * from pg_stat_activity;
, he will get a normally functioning view, but psql tab-complete will not help him. Type "v", "v$" or "v$act" and press <TAB> - nothing will be suggested.
Attached is a small patch fixing this problem.
Honestly I'm a little surprised that this was not done before. Maybe, there are some special considerations I am not aware of, and the patch will break something?
What would you say?
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best regards,
Mikhail A. Gribkov
