Group By Completion Insight Bug

Question

1. Open a connection and type the following:
select d.dummy, count(d.dummy) from dual d group by d.dummy;
2. Now modify the select list as follows:
select d.dummy, count(d.dummy), count(d.dummy) sum from dual d group by d.dummy;
3. Completion insight changes the code to:
select d.dummy, count(d.dummy), count(d.dummy) from dual d group by d.dummy, count;
ORA-00904: "COUNT": invalid identifier
Version 2.1.1.64
Java(TM) Platform     1.6.0_15
Oracle IDE     2.1.1.64.45
Versioning Support     2.1.1.64.45
Mac OSX Leopard

Answer 1

Hi Vadim,
I agree with you about the order of the SQL clauses. They must have been pretty keen on it 'making sense' in English. Meh! ;)
Autocomplete is cool, but as someone who can touch type (albeit at only ~70 wpm!), I usually find waiting for it to kick in a bit tiresome given that I can finish "select * from" in not much more than a second. I don't turn it off because it hardly ever gets a chance to fire.
I do use autocomplete in some other tools; in VB, it gives you a canonical map of the object model you are working with (often there seem to be things missing in SQL Developer). In TextMate, on the other hand, it isn't so 'smart', but its wicked fast, which it does by simply relying on text in the current file. Both work well. I do understand there is a different set of challenges in a DBMS client, though.
Incidentally, when I just tried selecting two tables simultaneously, the tool generated invalid SQL:
select * from V_TN_SPAN_GRPS _, V_TNS_WITH_DEFAULT_CONTRACTS S
(i.e. it supplied an underscore as the alias for the first view.)
Also, Ctrl+Space doesn't work for me (I'm on a Mac). Actually, there appear to be several default keymappings that don't work on a Mac. Here is my version info...
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