Why can't comment strings be expressions?

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Why can't comment strings be expressions?
Date: 2002-07-20 19:51:35
Message-ID: 20020720195135.GA1034@wolff.to
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I was playing around with comments today and was a bit suprised to
find that the text for a comment can only be a constant string.
I was trying to insert a date and can do that a different way in the
script that creates the comment string. But I was curious about why
there was such a limitation?

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