Re: Adding // comments (ANSI??)...

As far as I'm aware, MySQL is the only database that supports '//' as a
comment, and they made it up out of whole cloth...

ANSI _C_ perhaps...

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Sean Chittenden
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2003 7:22 AM
> To: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
> Subject: [PATCHES] Adding // comments (ANSI??)...
>
>
> I just had a friend over at EDS ask me if PostgreSQL supported //
> comments.  It didn't, so I put together a patch for them so that they
> could retain compatiblity across the databases they work on.
>
> I didn't think much of it until I took a gander at the crash-me page
> on mysql.com and I couldn't find a single vendor that supports //
> comments, but it did list // as an ANSI supported comment.  ::shrug::
> I don't have a copy of the spec, so someone more knowledgable in that
> area will have to speak to this or whether or not support for // is
> even wantd, but, here's the patch and regression tests.  -sc
>
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> Sean Chittenden
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