Re: tab completion in psql

> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > I liked the new tab competion ability in psql.  Seems to work well in
> > CREATE * but not so great in the others, like doing FROM and WHERE.  Can
> > you take a look at backend/parser/keywords.c and see if you can merge
> > completion for those words in to psql.  It may be a nice feature.
> 
> The tab completion is not very smart, it only covers the really obvious
> cases. Doing FROM shouldn't be so hard, but once you get into WHERE you
> almost end up writing a complete SQL parser just for this. Not that
> there's anything fundamentally wrong with that. It's a very evolving piece
> of code, however; it can only get better. I bet those readline authors
> never had this one in mind. Otherwise readline would play nicer with it.

I am just suggesting completing the word FROM, not doing anything more
than that.

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