On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:53:17PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Kyotaro HORIGUCHI (horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp) wrote:
> > I suppose it is for suggesting what kind of word should come
> > there, or avoiding silence for a tab. Or for symmetry with other
> > types of manipulation, like DROP. Another possibility is creating
> > multiple objects with similar names, say CREATE TABLE employee_x1,
> > CREATE TABLE employee_x2. Just trying to complete existing
> > *schema* is one more another possible objective.
>
> I don't buy any of these arguments either. I *really* don't want us
> going down some road where we try to make sure that hitting 'tab'
> never fails...
Wouldn't that just be a correct, grammar-aware implementation of tab
completion? Why wouldn't you want that?
Best,
David.
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