On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 11:31 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Vik Fearing <vik.fear...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > After re-reading the thread, I think the original patch is optimal. > > Hm, few other people thought that. > > I don't wanna be irritating but here every postgres user I found really can't understand how the original patch was not accepted, people against it did not show good reasons. > In particular, I currently hate how pasting a query with tabs screws > > everything up with unhelpful completions. I don't want to add to that > > with the column example Tom exposed in [1] and especially with the > > plpgsql example Vladimir Svedov exposed in [2]. > > That seems like sort of an independent problem, though. I wonder > whether it's possible to find out from libreadline that the input > text came from a paste rather than being typed. > > > I quite like the idea of blanking the database name in PROMPT2 as > > suggested by Daniel in [3], I would be happy to work on that patch if > > others agree. > > I think that the part of that about inserting a line number is important. > What about combining the two ideas: in PROMPT2, the database name is > *replaced* by a line number, while (trying to) keep the width the same? > If you guys can review the supposed consensus about this patch, I can spend some time and implement this PROMPT2 idea on different patch submission. Regards, Everaldo
