Re: Feature Request: inline comments

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:32:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> CaT <cat(at)zip(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > It is a pretty obvious suggestion I bet was made many, many times
> > before, but it would be very useful if you could create comments while
> > creating the objects themselves, like
>
> > CREATE TABLE FOO (
> > ID INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY COMMENT 'The ID',
> > VALUE VARCHAR(10) COMMENT 'The value',
> > ) COMMENT 'The table';
>
> This seems like a fairly bad idea to me, because it converts your table
> definitions into proprietary syntax. Heaven help you trying to load the
> above into any other database. With a separate COMMENT ON command, at
> least you have a fighting chance of ignoring the errors and pressing on.

Well, in a dump of the DB, you could have them as COMMENT ON. Otherwise
I /think/ this should do it in vim at least:

:%s/ COMMENT '\([^']*''\)*[^']*'//

It's not a perfect regex (though I think it could be made to hand E''
escaping) but it'll do for most comments.

> > Perhaps this is a small enough add to make it into 8.3?
>
> Feature freeze was six months ago, and no this wouldn't be a "small
> add" even if it was the best idea since sliced bread.

Fair cop.

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