Re: [PATCH] Improve autocompletion for SELECT statements

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 22:10 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> I just noticed this thread. Does the patch update the tab completion
>> code (tab-complete.inc, iirc) to the latest from PG 9.1? I don't think
>> we remembered to do that this release, so it probably should.
>>
>
> This patch shouldn't. It adds new features on the autocompletion,
> features that have nothing to do with the autocompletion code from 9.1.

Even if the patch doesn't directly update the file, it should be updated first.

FYI, I just took a look at the patch and it does touch
tab-complete.inc - it certainly should *not* do that, as
tab-complete.inc is generated with tabcomplete.pl from the upstream
tab-complete.c. Any changes made to it are likely to be lost the next
time it's updated. If that file must be changed, then it should be
done by tab-complete.pl, though frankly it would be better to push the
changes into psql first.

> But I agree we forgot to update this file, and that it should be done
> soon. I'm not sure if we should do that also for the 1.14 branch? any
> opinions on this one?

If it updates cleanly, I don't mind.

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