On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 03:54:55PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > Do we still want this as a compile-time option, or does it make more
> > sense as a run-time option? I'm thinking that with \L, it might make
> > sense as a run-time option.
>
> This seems to me to be strictly a developer debugging feature.
I would have thought so, but as our tab completion gets bigger--and
it's been steadily doing that--we may find ourselves in a situation
where it'd be handy to debug things in a production environment, with
all the restrictions that implies.
Can we conceive of a circumstance where the check for -L/\L would be
significant? I've seen people type pretty quickly, but not thus far
fast enough to notice a cache miss.
Best,
David.
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