Re: Really annoying comments...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: 21 April 2002 19:45
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Rod Taylor; Hackers List
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Really annoying comments...
>
>
> Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> >> I'm more inclined to rip it out ;-).
>
> > Eeep! pgAdmin handles comments coming from multiple pg_description
> > tables and it works very well (IMHO) in the pgAdmin UI. By
> all means
> > make them work more sensibly in whatever way seems most
> appropriate -
> > I'll fix pgAdmin to handle it, but don't just rip them out please!!
>
> Well, it would seem like the only sensible rule would be to
> allow COMMENT ON DATABASE only for the *current* database.
> Then at least you know which DB to look in.

That wouldn't cause me any pain - in pgAdmin the comment is just a property
of a pgDatabase object - if you modify it, it will always be set through a
connection to that database.

Regards, Dave.