David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes:
> While working on the new improved \df, I noticed a pretty major
> infelicity, namely that \ commands get validated by two completely
> independent code paths, namely tab-complete.c and
> command.c/describe.c.
Why is tab-complete doing anything that could be described as validation?
> I'm thinking it would be a good idea to factor the validating out as
> far as possible. This would also make it easier to make sure that tab
> completion and \'s output match to the maximal reasonable extent.
I rather doubt that this will really be much of a win, but if you want
to try it as a separate patch, go ahead.
regards, tom lane
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