I see, thank you.

Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> 于2022年7月9日周六 03:35写道:

> Jingtang Zhang <mrdrivingd...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Recently, when I was developing some function about INSERT ... ON
> CONFLICT,
> > I used test cases in `src/test/regress/sql/insert_conflict.sql` to
> evaluate
> > my function. When I copy the CREATE TABLE from this case alone, and paste
> > it to psql, I got a syntax error. As I go through the case carefully, I
> > found the CREATE TABLE uses two tabs to separate column name and column
> > type, and this two tabs are regarded as an auto completion instruction by
> > psql, causing no separation between column name and column type anymore.
>
> > It may not be a problem since this case has passed the regression, but
> > would it be better to use space here to avoid this confusing situation?
>
> There are tabs all through the regression test files, and we're certainly
> not going to remove them all.  (If we did, we'd lose test coverage of
> whether the parser accepts tabs as whitespace.)  So I can't get excited
> about removing one or two.
>
> The usual recommendation for pasting text into psql when it contains
> tabs is to start psql with the -n switch to disable tab completion.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

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