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Re: [HACKERS] Autocomplete <TAB> on Postgres7.4beta5 not working?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>

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From: Alvaro Herrera Munoz <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>, pgsql-bugs@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
Date: 2003-10-28T22:25:44Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:48:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> 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.

I found it very irritating at first, but when I discovered that I could
tab my way to syscatalogs by using "pg_catalog." as prefix, I started
feeling it was actually a nice behavior.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Coge la flor que hoy nace alegre, ufana. Quin sabe si nacera otra maana?"