From: Date: July 16 2001 6:27am
Subject: RE: Client Command Line interface "auto" compellation 3.23.39
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At 1:32 PM +1000 7/16/01, Noel Clarkson wrote:
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>>  >
>>  >interestingly, if I type sh<tab> I get 'show ' but if I type show
>ta<tab> I
>>  >don't get 'show tables' which is what I would expect.
>>
>>  Does "show tables" actually produce a list of tables, or no tables?
>>  On some systems, there is a bug in glibc that prevents it from working
>>  properly, in which case auto-completion won't work.  (I have one such
>>  system, and I see the same behavior you do, even if I type "rehash"
>>  to force re-hashing of the names.)
>>
>
>Thanks Paul rehash fixed my problems with it not showing up (I've never had
>to use rehash before).  I was actually getting a list of tables with show
>tables, now the only thing that doesn't work is the two worded commands
>where one word is common to multiple commands (eg show tables, show
>database etc completes the show but then thinks that it is the start of
>another separate command for the next word - and tables or database aren't
>commands), but I guess that's a reasonable thing because there might be
>times when that behaviour is needed.

You might wanna check to see if you have no-auto-rehash specified in
your .my.cnf file.  That's probably not so if completion worked before,
but ...

>
>cheers,
>
>noel


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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped