Dave tells me the list silently eats large mails, so here is the mail again without the patch. The patch is now on http://www.hagander.net/pgsql/patches/pgadmin_autocomplete.patch
//Magnus > -----Original Message----- > From: Magnus Hagander > Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 6:33 PM > To: pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Query tool: Autocompletion > > Hi! > > Attached is a first attempt at autocompletion for the SQL > Query tool. It probably needs some more work, but it's a start :-) > > It's based on the tab completion in psql. The idea is to pull > the latest and greatest tab-complete.c from psql, then run it > through a perlscript that picks out the tasty parts. > > > Anyway. Attached is the patch. I've also included a > tab-complete.inc from the current Due to a bug in the Visual > C++ compiler, it *has* to be compiled as "C" not as "C++". > Thus, a bit if ugly glue is required between those two worlds > :-)psql - to make it build directly (without adding a build > dependency on perl), this one is what should probably go in > svn, and then be manually sycned onw and then from psql. > "tabcomplete.c" needs to be added to the build project (I'm > devving in Visual Studio 2003, so I can't modify the .dsw > from there easily). > > I've only tested this on Windows so far. Wouldn't surprise me > if some minor work is needed to build on *nix. > > I'm also unsure if I can get away with the easy way I pass > strings in and out of wx (encoding issues?). It works in my > testcases, but I'm not familiar enough to be sure if it always does. > > Finally, I've added a screenshot for those who don't want to > rebuild :) > > So. Thoughts, and comments? > > //Magnus > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
