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From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Ken J. Wright <ken@ori-ind.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: psql comment char??
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 19:30:31 +0000
Message-ID: <3960E9D7.531E9206@alumni.caltech.edu> (raw)
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> > I would call those the alternate forms.  The canonical (SQL) way is
> > -- This is a comment
> Is this part of the SQL-92 spec?

This is the *only* comment delimiter defined in the SQL92 spec. The "/*
.. */" form is present in several database products since a
block-delimited comment is very useful.

                       - Thomas



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