Re: Tab completion of SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION

Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>

From: Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-02-01T01:32:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:18 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > It could read all the SET variables in at startup?
> 
> Right, but do we want to do that even if they never ask for a tab
> completion?  I think the easiest might be to just save the list on first
> tab call.

As mentioned earlier the problem exists for all tab completion in
aborted transactions.

Perhaps a second database connection could be established during
situations when running tab completion and other psql commands is
impossible on the main one?
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