Re: I want to send comments to the backend!

Gerhard Häring <lists@ghaering.de> writes:
>> I'm quite certain that libpq does not strip comments, so the complaint
>> isn't strictly accurate...

> Then why does the attached program not work?

>     res = PQexec(conn, "-- foobar");
>     if (!res || PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK)

Because a comment isn't an SQL command.  I forget what the result status
is in this case, but COMMAND_OK ain't it.
        regards, tom lane