Re: psql and readline comments

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Дилян Палаузов <dpa-postgres(at)aegee(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql and readline comments
Date: 2019-01-18 08:18:09
Message-ID: 82eab8ea-5d9d-efab-dcc8-d7713d2b0645@2ndquadrant.com
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On 14/01/2019 16:59, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I agree -- it doesn't make sense to treat the insert-comment command as
> inserting a #, which is not a comment for psql. I use meta-# often in
> bash and I'm never happy to have to resort to manually prepending "--"
> in psql in order to make the current line a comment instead.

I have found

rl_variable_bind("comment-begin",";");

in the clisp code, so it seems it's not unheard of to do this sort of thing.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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