Re: psql and readline comments - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: psql and readline comments
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Msg-id 82eab8ea-5d9d-efab-dcc8-d7713d2b0645@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: psql and readline comments  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: psql and readline comments  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 14/01/2019 16:59, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I agree -- it doesn't make sense to treat the insert-comment command as
> inserting a #, which is not a comment for psql.  I use meta-# often in
> bash and I'm never happy to have to resort to manually prepending "--"
> in psql in order to make the current line a comment instead.

I have found

rl_variable_bind("comment-begin",";");

in the clisp code, so it seems it's not unheard of to do this sort of thing.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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