Re: [HACKERS] Re: psql and comments - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: psql and comments
Date
Msg-id 199910071654.MAA02332@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: psql and comments  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Re: psql and comments  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> > The question I have though is, is there a reason, besides efficiency, that
> > psql doesn't just send the comment to the backend with the query? The
> > backend does accept comments last time I checked. Perhaps someone will one
> > day write something that makes some use of those comments on the backend
> > (thus conflicting with the very definition of "comment", but maybe a
> > logger) and it would remove some load out of psql.
> 
> Efficiency is all, along with (probably) the backend being unhappy
> getting *only* a comment and no query.
> 

That is fixed now.  External interfaces showed problems, as the perl
MySQL test showed.

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