Re: FORMAL VOTE ON =- and similar

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andreas Zeugswetter <andreas(dot)zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at>
Cc: hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FORMAL VOTE ON =- and similar
Date: 2000-06-09 19:58:24
Message-ID: 200006091958.PAA25788@candle.pha.pa.us
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Can someone comment on this? Add to TODO?

> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> >Actually, I'd suggest we *remove* the "//" comment delimiters
> >altogether. We always had the "--" SQL92 delimiter, I added the "/*
> >... */" so we could get a block delimiter of some sort (it is the same
> >aas in Ingres). I don't know what other DBMSes do, and we could define
> >something else instead if SQL3 or some other convention offers a
> >strong reason.
>
> I think the standard specifies the curly brackets as comment block characters.
> I checked, and we do not have them :-(
>
> Example:
> select { this is a comment } * from pg_class;
>
> Most (all that I know) other DB's have them.
>
> Andreas
>

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