On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to> wrote:
What I would prefer is something like this:
CREATE TABLE foo( f1 int NOT NULL COMMENT 'the first field', f2 int NOT NULL COMMENT 'the second field', ... );
which would ensure the comments are both next to the field definition they're documenting and that they make it all the way to the database. I looked into the biggest products, and MySQL supports this syntax. I couldn't find any similar syntax in any other product.
+1 for the idea - though restricting it to columns would not be ideal.
CREATE TABLE name
COMMENT IS
'Table Comment Here'
(
col1 serial COMMENT IS 'Place comment here'
);
And what about the other CREATE statements? IMHO if we follow this path then we should add COMMENT to all CREATE statements and perhaps also to ALTER. Of course in a set of small patches to make the reviewers life easier.
I should have made it clear I didn't expect TABLE to be the only object but rather was using it as an example of how we could/should do this generally for top-level objects (e.g., table) and sub-objects (e.g., column).
