Re: FORMAL VOTE ON =- and similar

Can someone comment on this?  Add to TODO?


> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> >Actually, I'd suggest we *remove* the "//" comment delimiters
> >altogether. We always had the "--" SQL92 delimiter, I added the "/*
> >... */" so we could get a block delimiter of some sort (it is the same
> >aas in Ingres). I don't know what other DBMSes do, and we could define
> >something else instead if SQL3 or some other convention offers a
> >strong reason.
> 
> I think the standard specifies the curly brackets as comment block characters.
> I checked, and we do not have them :-( 
> 
> Example:
> select { this is a comment } * from pg_class;
> 
> Most (all that I know) other DB's have them.
> 
> Andreas
> 


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