Re: Is it possible to have psql ignore the line I am typing?

Thank you Joshua!

> I believe -- will do what you like;

It sure does.

Regards,

Tena Sakai
tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com]
Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 5:41 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Is it possible to have psql ignore the line I am typing?

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 17:39 -0700, Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Is it possible to have psql ignore the line I am typing?
> That is, similar to '#' with unix shell. What I would
> like is to document my interaction with psql. If an
> exclamation mark were a comment character, I may type
> something like:

I believe -- will do what you like;

> silver=# ! I need to find out if data tagged as KIAA
> silver=# ! got into silver database last night.
> silver=#
> silver=# select type, name, marker
> silver-# from marker_table
> silver-# where tag LIKE 'KIAA%';
>
> It would be nice to be able to jot down what little stream
> of thoughts come to my finger tip while I converse with
> psql.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tena Sakai
> tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu
>
>
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