Re: [HACKERS] Re: psql and comments

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: psql and comments
Date: 1999-10-07 16:54:12
Message-ID: 199910071654.MAA02332@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > The question I have though is, is there a reason, besides efficiency, that
> > psql doesn't just send the comment to the backend with the query? The
> > backend does accept comments last time I checked. Perhaps someone will one
> > day write something that makes some use of those comments on the backend
> > (thus conflicting with the very definition of "comment", but maybe a
> > logger) and it would remove some load out of psql.
>
> Efficiency is all, along with (probably) the backend being unhappy
> getting *only* a comment and no query.
>

That is fixed now. External interfaces showed problems, as the perl
MySQL test showed.

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