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El Vie 13 Ago 2004 16:27, Steve Crawford escribió:
> On Friday 13 August 2004 12:18 pm, David Garamond wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be cool if someday psql could do value completion?
> >
> > # delete from person where lastname = 'Garam<tab>
> > # delete from person where lastname = 'Garamond' _
> >
> > # delete from person where firstname = 'Da<tab><tab>
> > # delete from person where firstname = 'Da
> > Damian Darren Dave David Dawson
> >
> > # delete from person where firstname = 'D<tab><tab>
> > Display all 215 possibilities? (y or n)
>
> Sure it would be cool - but as far as I can tell totally impractical.
>
> Determining all the possible expandable values for a particular column
> could very well require a full-table-scan of a multi-million row
> table each time you try to tab-expand. Not only would performance be
> terrible but get a few users doing this and you could really hammer
> the server.
This could be an extra cool-hack and not nesesarely be part of the core
distribution.
greets
j0rd1
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