Re: Really annoying comments...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: 19 April 2002 19:54
> To: Rod Taylor
> Cc: Hackers List
> Subject: Re: Really annoying comments...
>
>
> "Rod Taylor" <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca> writes:
> > COMMENT ON DATABASE db IS 'Comment';
> > Now switch databases. Comment is gone.
>
> Yeah, it's not very helpful. I'm not sure why we bothered to
> implement that in the first place.
>
> > I suppose in order to add a comment field to pg_database it
> would need
> > to be toasted or something (ton of work). Any other way to
> fix this?
>
> I'm more inclined to rip it out ;-).

Eeep! pgAdmin handles comments coming from multiple pg_description tables
and it works very well (IMHO) in the pgAdmin UI. By all means make them work
more sensibly in whatever way seems most appropriate - I'll fix pgAdmin to
handle it, but don't just rip them out please!!

Regards, Dave.