On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:15:22PM +0200, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> (in hopes that the current changes to tab-completion will help to get this fixed)
>
> tab-completion goes wrong on SET setting=...
>
> example:
>
> If you want to input "set search_path=myschema;" without spaces around '=',
> and you try tab-completion halfway the schemaname:
>
> set search_path=mysch
> ^tab
>
> then the initial part of the schema name ('mysch') gets removed and replaced with 'TO'.
>
> So that you now have:
>
> set search_path=TO <cursor>
>
> You lose the part of the schema name that was already input.
>
> With spaces that doesn't happen, but after all tabcompletion is about avoiding keystrokes and errors.
>
> Tab-completion is great and this search_path-annoyance happens to me all the time; my fingers
> can't seem to learn this exception.
>
> (pgsql 9.2devel, problem also in latest 9.1.3)
I have fixed this with the attached patch. It does not do any further
competion of DEFAULT or other known settings if the equal sign has no
space before it.
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