Re: Database Comments - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Database Comments
Date
Msg-id 5254.1128701913@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Database Comments  (Mark Rae <mrae@purplebat.com>)
List pgsql-general
Mark Rae <mrae@purplebat.com> writes:
> Using COMMENT ON DATABASE only allows you to create a comment
> for your current database which is then only visible from that database.
> ...
> Also is there any intention to have a 'COMMENT ON [ROLE|USER|GROUP]'
> facility.

There's been some discussion of creating a shared catalog for comments
on shared objects, which would let us fix the current bogus behavior
of COMMENT ON DATABASE and add comments on users/etc that weren't
equally bogus.  Nobody's stepped up to make it happen though.

            regards, tom lane

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