Re: psql auto-completion for multiple where clauses

On 16 July 2010 16:04, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
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>> Someone highlighed on IRC that after the first WHERE clause,
>> autocomplete no longer works.
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>> SELECT * FROM tab_completion WHERE id = 2 AND s<tab><tab>
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>> Is there any chance of improving this so it would work for more than 1
>> WHERE clause?  I notice it also doesn't work for GROUP BY or HAVING at
>> all, but seems to be fine for ORDER BY.
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> No: there is only a small number of words that we go back through,
> so the above will not work as we cannot get back to the name of the table
> from the right side of the AND. The way to fix that is to redesign our
> tab-completion system such that it knows about a greater number of words,
> perhaps even the complete statement.
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Yay for complete overhauls!  Okay, fair enough.  Bit unintuitive
behaviour though.

>> SELECT * FROM tab_completion WHERE id = 2 AND b<tab>
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>> Since there is no column beginning with "b", it might be an idea to
>> get it to match "bark bark" instead.  It might help alleviate what may
>> be a gotcha for some.
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> This one is more doable, assuming we are really talking about:
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> SELECT * FROM tab_completion WHERE b<tab>
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> Keep in mind it will show up in a list if you do the following:
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> SELECT * FROM tab_completion WHERE <tab>
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Doesn't it do that already?

Thom