Re: [BUGS] Autocomplete on Postgres7.4beta5 not working? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera Munoz
Subject Re: [BUGS] Autocomplete on Postgres7.4beta5 not working?
Date
Msg-id 20031028222544.GA8497@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: [BUGS] Autocomplete on Postgres7.4beta5 not working?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [BUGS] Autocomplete on Postgres7.4beta5 not working?
Re: [BUGS] Autocomplete on Postgres7.4beta5 not working?
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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.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Coge la flor que hoy nace alegre, ufana. �Qui�n sabe si nacera otra ma�ana?"


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