On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Fabrízio de Royes Mello < fabriziome...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Em sábado, 2 de julho de 2016, David G. Johnston < > david.g.johns...@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Marko Tiikkaja <ma...@joh.to> wrote: >> >>> >>> What I would prefer is something like this: >>> >>> CREATE TABLE foo( >>> f1 int NOT NULL COMMENT >>> 'the first field', >>> f2 int NOT NULL COMMENT >>> 'the second field', >>> ... >>> ); >>> >>> which would ensure the comments are both next to the field definition >>> they're documenting and that they make it all the way to the database. I >>> looked into the biggest products, and MySQL supports this syntax. I >>> couldn't find any similar syntax in any other product. >>> >>> >> +1 for the idea - though restricting it to columns would not be ideal. >> >> >> CREATE TABLE name >> COMMENT IS >> 'Table Comment Here' >> ( >> col1 serial COMMENT IS 'Place comment here' >> ); >> >> > And what about the other CREATE statements? IMHO if we follow this path > then we should add COMMENT to all CREATE statements and perhaps also to > ALTER. Of course in a set of small patches to make the reviewers life > easier. > > I should have made it clear I didn't expect TABLE to be the only object but rather was using it as an example of how we could/should do this generally for top-level objects (e.g., table) and sub-objects (e.g., column). David J.
