* Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> [2008-03-17 15:43]:
> 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?
The idea was to do completion for psql, in particular of usernames and
databases. See my other mail for details.
Regards,
Mika