Re: FORMAL VOTE ON =- and similar

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Can someone comment on this? Add to TODO?

Last I checked, SQL3 specifies -- and /*...*/ and nothing else.
I think we are in good shape on the comment front.

regards, tom lane

>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>>>> Actually, I'd suggest we *remove* the "//" comment delimiters
>>>> altogether. We always had the "--" SQL92 delimiter, I added the "/*
>>>> ... */" so we could get a block delimiter of some sort (it is the same
>>>> aas in Ingres). I don't know what other DBMSes do, and we could define
>>>> something else instead if SQL3 or some other convention offers a
>>>> strong reason.
>>
>> I think the standard specifies the curly brackets as comment block characters.
>> I checked, and we do not have them :-(
>>
>> Example:
>> select { this is a comment } * from pg_class;
>>
>> Most (all that I know) other DB's have them.
>>
>> Andreas
>>

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