Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbro...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> The "bike shedding" that I'd rather have would involve enclosing
>> prompts with /* comments */ so that cut'n'paste could be expected to
>> generate output that could run, without further editing, in another
>> psql session. Mind you, whenever I have configured such, I have been
>> unhappy at how wide that makes the prompt and at the loss of screen
>> space.
> I would second this precise interest. It really annoys me more often
> than anything else that when I try to copy/paste an sql query I need
> to copy each line one by one. It would be different from MySql but I
> think it would be even clearer to the user:
> postgres=> select 1,
> /*line 2:*/ 2,
> /*line 3:*/ 3;
This looks promising until you stop to think about either string
literals or /* comment blocks being continued across lines ...
regards, tom lane
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