Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511BA2E0030 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:17:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63757-02 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:17:37 -0400 (AST) Received: from outN.internet-mail-service.net (outN.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.237]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D722E002C for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:17:36 -0400 (AST) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:17:34 -0800 X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from [192.168.1.109] (adsl-71-135-191-42.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [71.135.191.42]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0850E127268 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:17:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47B8EAF2.6070208@obviously.com> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:18:26 -0800 From: Bryce Nesbitt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20070803 SUSE/1.1.7-0.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: comment on COLUMN, broken or misunderstanding? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200802/142 X-Sequence-Number: 30233 I'm expecting COLUMN comments to work much like table comments, but I'm getting nothing back. Is this a reportable bug, or a misunderstanding? # comment on column sched.days is 'Bitmask 0=Sunday,7=Holiday, 8=School day, 9=Special'; COMMENT # \dd sched.days; Schema | Name | Object | Description --------+------+--------+------------- (0 rows) # comment on table sched is 'Table comment'; COMMENT ez-sched=# \dd sched; Object descriptions Schema | Name | Object | Description --------+-------+--------+--------------- public | sched | table | Table comment (1 row) # select * from version(); PostgreSQL 8.2.6 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)