Re: psql and comments

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql and comments
Date: 1999-10-07 15:30:08
Message-ID: 37FCBC80.970E2C07@alumni.caltech.edu
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> The question I have though is, is there a reason, besides efficiency, that
> psql doesn't just send the comment to the backend with the query? The
> backend does accept comments last time I checked. Perhaps someone will one
> day write something that makes some use of those comments on the backend
> (thus conflicting with the very definition of "comment", but maybe a
> logger) and it would remove some load out of psql.

Efficiency is all, along with (probably) the backend being unhappy
getting *only* a comment and no query.

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California

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