From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200303201909.h2KJ9QU02834@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: I want to send comments to the backend!
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:09:26 -0500 (EST)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> generalize it to understand about comments.  Right now seems to be a
> >> fine time to think about this, in fact, given that we're hacking the
> >> protocol anyway.
> 
> > Yes.
> 
> On third thought, though, it would be really trivial for
> pg_exec_query_string to call NullCommand and fall out early if
> pg_parse_query returns an empty list; it'd take one extra test for NIL,
> which would be more than compensated for if we got rid of the strspn
> test.  So maybe changing the backend is the best answer after all.

Yes, that was my original thought.

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