Re: [HACKERS] psql and comments

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] psql and comments
Date: 1999-10-09 12:50:20
Message-ID: 199910091250.IAA10637@candle.pha.pa.us
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> On Oct 7, Bruce Momjian mentioned:
>
> > > Things aren't a big problem the way they stand, but istm that a
> > > completely blank line (after stripping single-line comments) may as
> > > well be the same as an empty line,and that psql could figure that out.
> >
> > I see your point in the above example. I will wait for the psql/libpq
> > cleaner-upper to finish, and take a look at it.
>
> Oh, now I'm cleaning up libpq as well??? 8-}
>
> Well anyway, by a vote of 1 1/2 to 1 psql will strip all comments before
> sending a query, probably in a C pre-processor kind of way.

Looks like we are going for a 7.0 next, so feel free to remove very old
functions.

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