psql : Comment?

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#1Bruce Tong
zztong@laxmi.ev.net

I tend to put SQL into text files and then let a makefile run them through
psql. I'd like to be able to put comments into these SQL files. Is there a
character psql accepts as a comment?

Example (create.sql) ...

# Patient Records are really cool.

CREATE TABLE patient
(
id integer unqiue not null, # A nifty column, eh?
);

Example (makefile) ...

create :
psql -f create.sql

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#2Simon Drabble
simon@eskimo.com
In reply to: Bruce Tong (#1)
Re: [GENERAL] psql : Comment?

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Bruce Tong wrote:

I tend to put SQL into text files and then let a makefile run them through
psql. I'd like to be able to put comments into these SQL files. Is there a
character psql accepts as a comment?

Bruce Tong | Got me an office; I'm there late at night.

Standard(?) SQL method is to use -- , e.g.

CREATE TABLE foo (
bar int, -- an integer
baz text -- some text
);

Simon.

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#3Stéphane FILLON
fillons@offratel.nc
In reply to: Simon Drabble (#2)
Re: [GENERAL] psql : Comment?

Try to use --

-- Patient Records are really cool.

CREATE TABLE patient
(
id integer unqiue not null, -- A nifty column, eh?
);

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Bruce Tong <zztong@laxmi.ev.net>
� : PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>
Date : samedi 14 ao�t 1999 04:55
Objet : [GENERAL] psql : Comment?

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I tend to put SQL into text files and then let a makefile run them through
psql. I'd like to be able to put comments into these SQL files. Is there a
character psql accepts as a comment?

Example (create.sql) ...

# Patient Records are really cool.

CREATE TABLE patient
(
id integer unqiue not null, # A nifty column, eh?
);

Example (makefile) ...

create :
psql -f create.sql

--

Bruce Tong | Got me an office; I'm there late at night.
Systems Programmer | Just send me e-mail, maybe I'll write.
Electronic Vision / FITNE |
zztong@laxmi.ev.net | -- Joe Walsh for the 21st Century