> After quite a few hours of poring over my latest plpgsql dabbling, i found the error that caused import to barf, and
Iwas a bit surprised, since the error was caused by a single apostrophe in a comment line
>
> -- check if the row isn't available
> [SQL thingie]
>
> of course, i could avoid the problem by rewriting my comments to
>
> -- check if the row is available
> [SQL thingie]
>
> but it seems to me, that commenting a line should cause the parser to ignore *everything* until the next newline?
Yes, this has bitten me before, particularly in awk script where the
script is single-quoted. I don't know a good solution for this.
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