Re: [HACKERS] psql and comments

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] psql and comments
Date: 1999-10-11 14:57:58
Message-ID: 3801FAF6.6CC3E6E0@alumni.caltech.edu
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> Luckily, the regression tests don't make extensive use of the backslash
> commands, the issue being that their output might change. I only found
> three backslash commands in the whole regression tests. One occurence does
> something like this:
> some query;
> *** comment
> *** comment
> \p
> \r
> more queries;
> which should probably be changed anyway to something like
> -- comment
> -- comment

Actually, this is probably testing that the buffer reset actually
clears the lines, which wouldn't be as obvious if there were only
legal SQL preceeding it. Maybe leave it as-is??

- Thomas

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

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