Re: psql and comments - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: psql and comments
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Msg-id 37FCBC80.970E2C07@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to Re: psql and comments  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Re: psql and comments  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.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.
               - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California


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