Re: [PATCH] Improve autocompletion for SELECT statements

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Wander Winkelhorst
<w.winkelhorst@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> Could you please tell me how I'm supposed to use tabcomplete.pl, and where I
> can get the correct version of  tab-complete.c?

I'm not sure I've ever used it - that was originally written by Magnus
so I think he handled it originally.

The top of the script has this:

# This script builds tab-complete.inc from tab-complete.c. The
# source file (tab-complete.c) should be copied from the latest
# PostgreSQL sources (src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c), so we don't
# have to do all the work ourselves...

By the looks of it you copy tab-complete.c to pgadmin/utils, and then
run the script in that directory.

I wouldn't be surprised if it needs
updating though; the tab completion code does get hacked on quite
regularly in PostgreSQL.