Re: psql tab completion for SELECT

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I'm not against tab-completing functions, if people think that's
>> useful. I am against tab-completing them in 1% of use-cases, which is
>> what this patch accomplishes. The fact that it's short doesn't make it
>> good.

> Our tab completion is in general very incomplete; we have made a
> practice of cherry-picking the most commonly encountered cases and
> handling only those. Whether or not that is a good policy is a
> philosophical question, but there is no reason to hold this particular
> patch to a higher standard than the quality of our tab completion code
> in general.

Well, if you want a patch with low standards, what about tab-completing
function names anywhere that we do not see context suggesting something
else? I really think that doing it only immediately after SELECT is
going to prove far more of an annoyance than a help, because once you
get used to relying on it you are going to wish it worked elsewhere.

regards, tom lane