Thread: inquiry on readline functionality on psql client

Hello,

I appreciate very much the readline functionality on the psql client.
However, I'd like to ask if it is possible for the readline
functionality to gobble up even table names and field names:

For example, if have tables

`table1' with 3 fields `field1', 'field2', and `field3'

and

`table2' with 3 fields `field1', 'field2', and `field3',

Is it possible to do

select <tab>    # then, after tabbing I  select `table1'

then

select table1.<tab> #  then, after tabbing I select field2

Thus, I would have the complete statment

`select table1.field2 from table1'

Well, the above statement  is equivalent to

`select field1 from table1'

but I was wondering how the name globbing scenario I presented is
possible?  If it is not possible to do it with any configuration files,
could anyone point out at source code level what can be done since I'd
like to try playing around with this feature.

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Carlo

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Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph

Carlo Florendo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I appreciate very much the readline functionality on the psql client.
> However, I'd like to ask if it is possible for the readline
> functionality to gobble up even table names and field names:
>
> For example, if have tables
>
> `table1' with 3 fields `field1', 'field2', and `field3'
>
> and
>
> `table2' with 3 fields `field1', 'field2', and `field3',
>
> Is it possible to do
>
> select <tab>    # then, after tabbing I  select `table1'
>
> then
>
> select table1.<tab> #  then, after tabbing I select field2
>
> Thus, I would have the complete statment
>
> `select table1.field2 from table1'
>
> Well, the above statement  is equivalent to
>
> `select field1 from table1'

Sorry, the above sql shoud read `select field2 from table1'

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Carlo

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Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph

Hi Carlo,

On Oct 20, 2004, at 9:47 PM, Carlo Florendo wrote:

> but I was wondering how the name globbing scenario I presented is
> possible?  If it is not possible to do it with any configuration
> files, could anyone point out at source code level what can be done
> since I'd like to try playing around with this feature.

I can't help you with a way to do this, but the source code for the tab
completion is at this path:

src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c

Best,

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

John DeSoi wrote:

> Hi Carlo,
>
> On Oct 20, 2004, at 9:47 PM, Carlo Florendo wrote:
>
>> but I was wondering how the name globbing scenario I presented is
>> possible?  If it is not possible to do it with any configuration
>> files, could anyone point out at source code level what can be done
>> since I'd like to try playing around with this feature.
>
>
> I can't help you with a way to do this, but the source code for the
> tab completion is at this path:
>
> src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c
>
Great! I'll be looking at it.  Thanks for the pointer.

Best Regards,

Carlo

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Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph