Re: SQL comments

From: "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Allison" <tallison(at)tacocat(dot)net>
Cc: "Shoaib Mir" <shoaibmir(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL comments
Date: 2006-06-11 21:38:40
Message-ID: c2d9e70e0606111438q64a5e439jef30a9b5b71b0cea@mail.gmail.com
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> Found them, eventually.
> I was trying to insert a comment in the middle of a line:
>
> select status, reason, --method
> from....
>

Actually, you can put a comment in the middle of a line. Your mistake
in the above statement is because of the comma before the command, the
parser sees this:

select status, reason, from ....

it's completely legal to write:
select status, reason --method
from mytable -- line 2

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regards,
Jaime Casanova

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots.
So far, the universe is winning."
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