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Re: FORMAL VOTE ON =- and similar

Zeugswetter Andreas <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at> — 2000-06-12T14:46:51Z

> Can someone comment on this?  Add to TODO?

No.

> > 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.

wrong, I'm sorry for the misinformation.

> > 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

It turns out I was always beleiving it to be so, but it isn't. 
The {} are an Informix'ism and thus not worth implementing.

Andreas