From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>,
        Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>,
 Kirk Wolak <wolakk@gmail.com>,
        PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: psql: Could we get "-- " prefixing on the **** QUERY ****
 outputs? (ECHO_HIDDEN)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> It's worth considering what will readline history do with the comment.
> As I recall, we keep /* comments */ together with the query that
> follows, but the -- comments are keep in a separate history entry.
> So that's one more reason to prefer /*  */

Good point.

> (To me, that also suggests to remove the asterisk line after each query,
> and to keep just the one before.)

Meh ... the one after serves to separate a query from its output.

			regards, tom lane