Re: [HACKERS] Re: psql and comments

> Anyway, I'm going to end up rewriting that parser anyway, so that will be
> taken care of. I was almost about to use flex but the Windows crowd
> probably wouldn't find that too funny. (The Windows crowd won't find this
> thing funny anyway, since I have no clue what #ifdef's I need for that.
> Someone else will have to do a looong compile&fix session.)
> 
> 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.

Remove it.  Send it to the backend.

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