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Re: Tab completion of SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-02-01T05:56:00Z
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Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca> writes:
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 10:28 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> What if that role has a maximum of one connection, etc.?

> Considering it would only be used when the alternative was to say
> "Sorry, tab completion unavailable", I really don't see these as
> problems -- fall back to saying it cannot be done.

The point is that this can hardly be claimed to be a "zero failure mode"
implementation, any more than is the method of saving the tab completion
list after first successful fetch.  Since the latter seems far simpler
and lower-overhead, I'd go with it...

			regards, tom lane