[mdb-dev] mdb-sql: Readline Completion Support

[Kyle R. B. <mo...@vo...>]

I've been using mdb-sql and since you've already got basic readline
support, I went and added in completion support to the shell.

I looked at what mdb-tables was doing to list the tables in the database
catalog and implemented similar functionality so table names are
included in the completion list.

The way the completion is implemented, it will only return candidates if
you've typed at least the first letter (or more) of one of the words.  If
the sql parsing strategy were changed so that partial parses could be 
recognized, then we could start looking at state-based completion - 
the idea being if you type: 'select ' and then hit tab, only table
names should be considered (and at that point a double tab could
just return the list of all of the tables).

A patch should be attached.


Best regards,
Kyle



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