On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Note that tables, indexes, views and sequences relations in the
> 'pg_catalog' namespace are excluded even though they are in the
> current search path. I found not doing this produced annoying
> behaviour when expanding names beginning with 'p'. People who work
> with system tables a lot may not like this though; I can look for
> another solution if necessary.
>
> Ian Barwick
>
> AFAICT there was no discussion about this issue when the patch was
> proposed and applied. But now that the point is raised I have to say
> that I don't like this change. I don't think system catalogs should be
> excluded from tab completion. They never were before 7.4, and I have
> not seen anyone complaining about that, other than Ian.
>
> Comments anyone?
I also would expect any relations I can see to be picked up by tab
completion.
Jon