Thanks Kristine!

Any reason why we have 2 different syntaxes for comments, one for the shell and 
one for sql files?

sqlline shell uses    # comment
sql file uses   /* comment */


—Andries




On Apr 28, 2015, at 11:31 AM, David Tucker <dtuc...@maprtech.com> wrote:

> And that works … thank you Kristine !
> 
> 
> On Apr 28, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Kristine Hahn <kh...@maprtech.com> wrote:
> 
>> The new docs http://tshiran.github.io/drill/docs/lexical-structure/ will
>> say:
>> First paragraph, last bullet: /* This is a comment. */
>> 
>> Kristine Hahn
>> Sr. Technical Writer
>> 415-497-8107 @krishahn
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Andries Engelbrecht <
>> aengelbre...@maprtech.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> How do you include SQL comments?
>>> 
>>> Using # at the beginning of a line work in the SQLline shell, however if
>>> it is part of a sql file the following error appears.
>>> 
>>> cat comment.sql
>>> 
>>> # comment
>>> select * from sys.version;
>>> 
>>> 0: jdbc:drill:zk=drilldemo:5181> !run comment.sql
>>> 1/2          # comment
>>> Aborting command set because "force" is false and command failed: "#
>>> comment”
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> —Andries
>>> 
>>> 
> 

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