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| -rw-r--r-- | src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c b/src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c index 22717914c73..2fd88866c9f 100644 --- a/src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c +++ b/src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c @@ -1447,7 +1447,13 @@ psql_completion(const char *text, int start, int end) NULL }; - (void) end; /* "end" is not used */ + /* + * Temporary workaround for a bug in recent (2019) libedit: it incorrectly + * de-escapes the input "text", causing us to fail to recognize backslash + * commands. So get the string to look at from rl_line_buffer instead. + */ + char *text_copy = pnstrdup(rl_line_buffer + start, end - start); + text = text_copy; #ifdef HAVE_RL_COMPLETION_APPEND_CHARACTER rl_completion_append_character = ' '; @@ -3859,6 +3865,7 @@ psql_completion(const char *text, int start, int end) /* free storage */ free(previous_words); free(words_buffer); + free(text_copy); /* Return our Grand List O' Matches */ return matches; |