On 13 Aug 2005 21:42:45 -0400, Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However, if you favor a "no thought required" approach, listing 'em > > all is certainly the path of least resistance. I'm just dubious that > > that maximizes the usefulness of tab completion. > I'm not sure if you're interested, but my 2c speaking as a user would be for > tab completion to include all variables. I often hit tab completion in new > programs just to find out what's out there and would take something missing to > be positive proof it didn't exist.
Oh, I usually do the same thing. I guess my approach could summarized as: I assume tab-completion is not too smart -- it just completes one of valid values. And at the times where tab-completion is smart, it is smart and configurable -- as ZSH tab-completion. And were PostgreSQL's tab-completion go "the smart way" I would be for adding a GUC which allowed to fine-grain what it actually gives (all variables, settable variables, 'vacuum%' and 'enable%' variables, etc. ;))). Regards, Dawid ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match