Re: psql and readline comments

Hello,

when the user does not set anything, the presumption is, that the system has reasonable defaults. A reasonable default
for “comment-begin” is “--”, and not the inherited default “#”.

Regards
Дилян

On Sun, 2019-01-13 at 10:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=94=D0=B8=D0=BB=D1=8F=D0=BD_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=9F=D0=B0=D0=BB=D0=B0=D1=83=D0=B7=D0=BE=D0=B2?= <dpa-postgres(at)aegee(dot)org> writes:
> > please consider integrating making the usual readilne binding M-# do in psql what users expect from it: insert comment
> > at the beginning of the line. See for patch:
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/01e0355e-381e-9732-7d4e-cbd0e6bfa710@aegee.org
>
> I remain of the opinion that (1) nobody has tested the proposed patch
> across a range of readline and libedit versions, and (2) this would
> probably be better addressed by a documentation addition anyway.
> It's not psql's job to override user-settable readline options.
>
> regards, tom lane