On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 11:17 AM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 05:36:35AM +0000, tanghy.f...@fujitsu.com wrote: > > You see, the tab-completion for "DELETE" is "DELETE FROM" which is not same > > as help-command said(which is "DELETE"). > > I tried to figure out why "FROM" is introduced here, but no good result > > got. In [1] someone changed "DELETE" to "DELETE FROM" but no reason added. > > > > IMO, the "FROM" is unnecessary just like "INTO" for "INSERT" command. So I > > tried to fix the inconsistency by removing "FROM" from "DELETE FROM" in > > tab-complete.c. > > Please see the attached patch. Any comment or different thought is very > > welcome. > > I think the behavior now is correct. The goal of autocompletion is to save > keystrokes and time. As the only valid keyword after a DELETE (at least in a > DeleteStmt) is FROM, it's a good thing that you get back "DELETE FROM" > directly > rather than asking that to autocomplete in multiple steps. > > Now, the \help command is for commands, which is a different thing as the > command in that case is DELETE not DELETE FROM, even if you will have to > follow > your DELETE with a FROM.
I agree with Julien. But, I also agree with the consistency point from Tang. So maybe we can fix the insert and add INSERT INTO in the tab completion? -- Regards, Dilip Kumar EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
