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Re: [PATCH] psql: tab completion for ALTER ROLE ... IN DATABASE ...

VASUKI M <vasukianand0119@gmail.com> — 2025-12-04T09:10:59Z

Kindly review the attached patch ,
As i saw the proposed patch by Ian failed with CI
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6244/
Guide me with the patch

Regards,
Vasuki M

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM VASUKI M <vasukianand0119@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Based on the discussion, I have updated the patch to handle the RESET form
> correctly without modifying psql’s tab-completion APIs.
>
> Both the current database connection and the parsed input tokens are
> already available via pset.db and the word tokens.The new patch extracts:
>
>    -
>
>    the role name from the parsed tokens (prev5_wd), and
>    -
>
>    the database name from the parsed tokens (prev2_wd),
>
> and uses these to query pg_db_role_setting for variables that are actually
> set for the specific (role, database) pair.
>
> Literal quoting is now done with PQescapeLiteral(pset.db, …), per libpq
> conventions, so no new helper functions were needed.
>
> SET
> After
>
> ALTER ROLE <role> IN DATABASE <dbname> SET <TAB>
>
> psql completes from Query_for_list_of_set_vars (same behavior as plain
> ALTER ROLE … SET).
>
> RESET
> After
>
> ALTER ROLE <role> IN DATABASE <dbname> RESET <TAB>
>
> psql now completes with the GUC names recorded in pg_db_role_setting for
> that specific (role,database), plus ALL.
> When no settings exist, only ALL is suggested.
> This mirrors the existing behavior of ALTER DATABASE … RESET.
>
> I have attached the patch.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vasuki
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I found myself needing to work with ALTER ROLE ... IN DATABASE ...
>> recently
>> and was annoyed by the lack of tab completion for this, so patch attached.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ian Barwick
>>
>>