On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:48:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:AFAICT there was no discussion about this issue when the patch was proposed and applied. But now that the point is raised I have to say that I don't like this change. I don't think system catalogs should be excluded from tab completion. They never were before 7.4, and I have not seen anyone complaining about that, other than Ian.
I found it very irritating at first, but when I discovered that I could tab my way to syscatalogs by using "pg_catalog." as prefix, I started feeling it was actually a nice behavior.
I found it similarly irritating at first, and it continues to irritate me. But that may be because I use system tables more frequently than the average Joe ;-)
I guess I'd be happy to see tab completion reinstated for system tables (except toast tables as Tom suggested nearby), but I don't feel particularly zealous about it.
Joe
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