Thank you Joshua!
> I believe -- will do what you like;
It sure does.
Regards,
Tena Sakai
tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com]
Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 5:41 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Is it possible to have psql ignore the line I am typing?
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 17:39 -0700, Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Is it possible to have psql ignore the line I am typing?
> That is, similar to '#' with unix shell. What I would
> like is to document my interaction with psql. If an
> exclamation mark were a comment character, I may type
> something like:
I believe -- will do what you like;
> silver=# ! I need to find out if data tagged as KIAA
> silver=# ! got into silver database last night.
> silver=#
> silver=# select type, name, marker
> silver-# from marker_table
> silver-# where tag LIKE 'KIAA%';
>
> It would be nice to be able to jot down what little stream
> of thoughts come to my finger tip while I converse with
> psql.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tena Sakai
> tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu
>
>
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