Re: COMMENTS are not being copied in CREATE TABLE LIKE

On Thu Feb 12, 2026 at 12:33 PM -03, Jim Jones wrote:
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> On 12/02/2026 16:08, Fujii Masao wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 11:36 PM Matheus Alcantara
>> <matheusssilv97(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> The patch fix the issue and it seems correct to me.
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> Thanks for the review!
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>> The documentation [1] states that INCLUDING COMMENTS copies comments for
>> the copied columns, constraints, and indexes. It does not mention copying
>> comments on the table itself. Therefore, not copying table comments with
>> INCLUDING COMMENTS does not appear to be a bug. That is, the proposed patch
>> seems more like an improvement than a bug fix.
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> Hmm, it seemed so obvious to me that I didn’t look more closely at the
> documentation :)
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Yeah, me too. I even checked if column comments was being created, but I
still assume that table comments should also be copied.

> Although I struggle to see the rationale for not
> copying a table’s comment in a CREATE TABLE LIKE ... INCLUDING COMMENTS
> statement, I have to agree that the documentation is quite clear about
> this limitation, and therefore it cannot really be considered a bug.
> That said, it may well be worth considering for a future release.
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> What are your thoughts?
>

+1 for having this as a feature on a future release.

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