Re: psql tab completion for SELECT

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> That seems pretty useful, and it's more or less a one-line change, as in
>> the attached patch.
>
> That seems pretty nearly entirely bogus.  What is the argument for
> supposing that the word right after SELECT is a function name?  I would
> think it would be a column name (from who-knows-what table) much more
> often.

It isn't necessarily, but it might be.  It'd certainly be nice to type:

SELECT pg_si<TAB>

and get:

SELECT pg_size_pretty(

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