Re: Improve tab completion for COPY

Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>, torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, rmt@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-06-11T18:47:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Fix tab-completion for COPY and \copy options.

  2. Add tab completion for REJECT_LIMIT option.

  3. Allow "COPY table TO" command to copy rows from materialized views.

  4. Add REJECT_LIMIT option to the COPY command.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 12:37:48PM -0700, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> >> > (1) adds tab completion support for the REJECT_LIMIT option, which was
> >> > introduced in v18
> >> > (2) splits the tab completion logic between COPY FROM and COPY TO to
> >> > reflect their different options.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Given REJECT_LIMIT is a new v18 feature, it seems to me that (1) is an
> > oversight of this feature, but I also agree that it's not a bug and
> > doesn't block the release.
> >
> > How does the RMT feel about the change (1)?  Nathan, would you be OK with that?
>
> 0001 sure seems like an oversight in commit 4ac2a9b to me.  In any case, I
> argued that we should fix tab completion for unlogged partitioned tables in
> v18 [0], and this seems pretty similar.
>
>
> TBH I'd even say that 0002 is fixing a bug and could be back-patched.  I've
> added rmt@ here in case Tomas or Heikki feel differently.

Thank you for your confirmation. I've just pushed the change (1) and
am waiting for more comments on the change (2).

Regards,

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