DWIM mode for psql

On 2019-04-01 09:52:34 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:

+/*
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.

Indentation bug. You really need to work a bit more careful.

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 5:04 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

On 2019-04-01 09:52:34 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:

+/*
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.

Indentation bug. You really need to work a bit more careful.

The patch applies cleanly, and passes "make check", but it generated an
executable called "mongodb".
Should I have run "make maintainer-clean" first?

On 3/31/19 10:52 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:> Building on the excellent work
begun by commit e529cd4ffa60, I would

like to propose a do-what-I-mean mode for psql. Please find a POC
patch attached. It works like this:

postgres=# select datnaam from pg_database where ooid = 12917;
ERROR: column "datnaam" does not exist
LINE 1: select datnaam from pg_database where ooid = 12917;
^
HINT: Perhaps you meant to reference the column "pg_database.datname".
postgres=# YES
datname
----------
postgres
(1 row)

I think it is potentially confusing that YES and NO does not look like
other psql commands. Let's pick something which is more in line with
existing commands like \y and \n.

Andreas

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for working on this.

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:53 Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

Building on the excellent work begun by commit e529cd4ffa60, I would
like to propose a do-what-I-mean mode for psql. Please find a POC
patch attached. It works like this:

postgres=# select datnaam from pg_database where ooid = 12917;
ERROR: column "datnaam" does not exist
LINE 1: select datnaam from pg_database where ooid = 12917;
^
HINT: Perhaps you meant to reference the column "pg_database.datname".
postgres=# YES
datname
----------
postgres
(1 row)

As you can see, by "shouting" a new keyword at the computer, it will
take its own hint and run the corrected query. To avoid having to do
this in two steps, you can also shout the whole query for the same
effect:

postgres=# SELECT DATNAAM FROM PG_DATABASE WHERE OOID = 12917;
datname
----------
postgres
(1 row)

Neat.

The next version will be able to fix permissions problems and override

errors automatically as follows, though that is proving trickier to
get working. Example:

postgres=# SUDO DROP TABLE PG_DATABASS;
NO CARRIER

Have you tried rebooting the machine?

Thanks,
Amit

Andreas Karlsson wrote

On 3/31/19 10:52 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:> Building on the excellent work
begun by commit e529cd4ffa60, I would

like to propose a do-what-I-mean mode for psql. Please find a POC
patch attached. It works like this:

postgres=# select datnaam from pg_database where ooid = 12917;
ERROR: column "datnaam" does not exist
LINE 1: select datnaam from pg_database where ooid = 12917;
^
HINT: Perhaps you meant to reference the column "pg_database.datname".
postgres=# YES
datname
----------
postgres
(1 row)

I think it is potentially confusing that YES and NO does not look like
other psql commands. Let's pick something which is more in line with
existing commands like \y and \n.

Andreas

+1
Regards

-)))°>

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