Re: psql SET/RESET/SHOW tab completion

I am wondering if is worth managing which items should be displayed or
not, and if we should just give up and display them all.  The GUC system
is just too dynamic.

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Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:33:55AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> > > I count about 65 variables that SHOW shows that are missing from
> > > pgsql_variables in tab-complete.c.  Does the list intentionally
> > > omit certain variables?
> > 
> > It's intentional that the tab completion not list every single variable;
> > I think if it did, it would be less useful not more so.  However the
> > decisions about which to omit have been less consistent than they
> > perhaps should be, and I'm sure there were some omitted purely through
> > oversight.  It would be good to go through the whole list and see
> > exactly what's missing or superfluous.
> 
> Here's the list I came up with -- variables that SHOW shows that
> aren't in psql's completion list.
> 
> archive_command
> authentication_timeout
> autovacuum
> autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor
> autovacuum_analyze_threshold
> autovacuum_naptime
> autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay
> autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit
> autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor
> autovacuum_vacuum_threshold
> bgwriter_all_maxpages
> bgwriter_all_percent
> bgwriter_delay
> bgwriter_lru_maxpages
> bgwriter_lru_percent
> block_size
> bonjour_name
> check_function_bodies
> checkpoint_segments
> checkpoint_timeout
> checkpoint_warning
> config_file
> custom_variable_classes
> data_directory
> db_user_namespace
> escape_string_warning
> external_pid_file
> full_page_writes
> hba_file
> ident_file
> integer_datetimes
> krb_caseins_users
> krb_server_hostname
> krb_server_keyfile
> krb_srvname
> lc_collate
> lc_ctype
> listen_addresses
> log_connections
> log_directory
> log_disconnections
> log_filename
> log_hostname
> log_line_prefix
> log_rotation_age
> log_rotation_size
> log_truncate_on_rotation
> max_function_args
> max_identifier_length
> max_index_keys
> max_prepared_transactions
> pre_auth_delay
> preload_libraries
> redirect_stderr
> server_version
> silent_mode
> standard_compliant_strings
> transaction_isolation
> transaction_read_only
> vacuum_cost_delay
> vacuum_cost_limit
> vacuum_cost_page_dirty
> vacuum_cost_page_hit
> vacuum_cost_page_miss
> zero_damaged_pages
> 
> -- 
> Michael Fuhr
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