Re: BUG #4040: psql should provide option to not prompt for password

Mika Fischer wrote:

> I'm currently working on the bash-completion package. The problem with
> postgresql is that psql cannot safely be called because there is no way to
> know whether it will prompt for a password and there is also no way to avoid
> the prompt.

Hmm, why do you need to connect to a database?  Some time ago I came up
with this:

_postgres()
{
        local cur;
        COMPREPLY=()
        cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
        prev=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}
        if [ "$prev" == "-c" ]; then
                COMPREPLY=($(compgen -S= -onospace -W '`command postgres --describe-config | cut -d"    " -f1`' --
$cur));
                return 0
        fi
        COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W '-A -B -c -d -D -e -E -F -N -o -P -s -S -f -i -O -t -W --describe-config --help
--version'-- $cur)) 
        return 0
}
complete -F _postgres postgres postmaster

What else do you need?

(Hmm, it doesn't work correctly in the french locale ... it seems
someone decided to add some newlines in there.)

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