From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: comment on COLUMN, broken or misunderstanding?
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:35:03 -0500
Message-ID: <5750.1203302103@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B8EAF2.6070208@obviously.com>
References: <47B8EAF2.6070208@obviously.com>
Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com> writes:
> 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)
Try "\d+ sched". I don't think \dd considers columns at all --- what
that command would be looking for is comments on table days in schema
sched.
regards, tom lane
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