Re: Tab completion of SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION

[Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> It could read all the SET variables in at startup?

Right, but do we want to do that even if they never ask for a tab
completion?  I think the easiest might be to just save the list on first
tab call.

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> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Some time ago, the tab completion code for the SET command was changed to read 
> > the list of available settings from the pg_settings table.  This means that 
> > by the time you're done completing SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION, you've already 
> > sent a query and the command will be disallowed.  It's not a major issue, but 
> > I figured I'd mention it since it confused me a while ago.  If someone has an 
> > ingenious plan for working around this, let me know.
> > 
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