On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:31:11PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > David Fetter wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:11:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > It seems like rather a large change to be making in beta. Can > > > you make a small patch that fixes the immediate problem, and > > > leave the refactoring for 8.5? > > > > The hack I've come up with short of the refactor is to duplicate a > > lot of the backslash handling code from command.c and describe.c. > > It doesn't strike me as being all that much less work than the > > refactor. > > Tab completion has never been perfect. I don't think beta is the > best time to be improving it so much. I think a small patch that > just adds "\dfa", "\dfw" and appropriate pattern completions (i.e. > it lists window functions in \dfw, etc) should be enough for now, > and let the big refactoring loose in the 8.5 timeframe. If we don't > support \dfaw in 8.4, tough world.
The problem I see that argues for a refactor is the S option. Short of the refactor, how do I handle it? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
