Re: /* */ comments showing up in pg_stat_activity

Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
> On Saturday 26 Apr 2003 8:35 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > > The question back is from where does such a query with a comment come?
> > > If it is a standard client like psql, it could happen someday that this
> > > client does some filtering.
>
>
> Yes its thru psql only , i run a SQL batch using
> psql -e -h db -f batch.sql
>
> In case future version of psql strips them it would
> still be nice if libpq continue supporting it
> i feel it would be a nice feature for keeping track of
> queries.

[ After not replying to the proper question before, I will try again. :-) ]

The actual stripping of comments in psql is a little more complex. For
example, this will not strip:

SELECT /* test */ 1;

while this will strip comments:

SELECT 1; /* test */

and leading comments are not stripped either:

/* test */ SELECT 1;

so if the comment is _inside_ a query, it will be OK, but outside and
trailing, psql processes the comment itself so it can display the proper
prompting:

test=> /*
test*> test

^
test*> */

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