Re: psql: fix variable existence tab completion

On 19.07.2024 01:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually, I think we ought to just reject this change.  Debian 10
> will be two years past EOL before PG 17 ships.  So I don't see a
> reason to support it in the tests anymore.  One of the points of
> such testing is to expose broken platforms, not mask them.
> 
> Obviously, if anyone can point to a still-in-support platform
> with the same bug, that calculus might change.

The bug when broken version of libedit want to backslash some symbols
(e.g. double quotas, curly braces, the question mark)
i only encountered on Debian 10 (buster).

If anyone has encountered a similar error on some other system,
please share such information.


> With respect to the other hacks Alexander mentions, maybe we
> could clean some of those out too?  I don't recall what platform
> we had in mind there, but we've moved our goalposts on what
> we support pretty far in the last couple years.

Agreed that no reason to save workarounds for non-supported systems.
Here is the patch that removes fixes for Buster bug mentioned above.


With the best regards,

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Anton A. Melnikov
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