Re: psql tab completion for SELECT

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> That seems pretty nearly entirely bogus.  What is the argument for
>> supposing that the word right after SELECT is a function name?

> It isn't necessarily, but it might be.  It'd certainly be nice to type:
> SELECT pg_si<TAB>
> and get:
> SELECT pg_size_pretty(

Yeah, and then you'll type
SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_dat<TAB>

and get nothing, and curse the authors of such a misbegotten incomplete
concept that leads your fingers to rely on something that doesn't work
where it should.

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.
        regards, tom lane