> 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