Re: Identifying comments [ANSWERED]

2019-01-17 Thread David G. Johnston
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 8:39 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > I want only to confirm that I can use /* ... */ for multiline comments in my > > DDL and DML scripts. > > Oops! Section 4.1.5 tells me that I can. > You could also just try it... select 1 /* co

Re: Identifying comments [ANSWERED]

2019-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I want only to confirm that I can use /* ... */ for multiline comments in my DDL and DML scripts. Oops! Section 4.1.5 tells me that I can. Apologies to all, Rich

Identifying comments

2019-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I know that "--" has been the single-line comment identifier since SQL was implemented by IBM on mainframes using Hollerith cards. Today, some RDBMSs also allow the C comment indentifier pair, /* ... */. The postgres10 manual when searched for 'comments' presents the double hyphens and, in Sectio