Comments and metadata

Nik and Michael discuss query level comments, object level comments, and another way of adding object level metadata.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:
• Object comments postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-comment.html
• Query comment syntax (from an old version of the docs) postgresql.org/docs/7.0/syntax519.htm
• SQL Comments, Please! (Post by Markus Winand) modern-sql.com/caniuse/comments
• “While C-style block comments are passed to the server for processing and removal, SQL-standard comments are removed by psql.” postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html
• marginalia github.com/basecamp/marginalia
• track_activity_query_size postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-sta…
• Custom Properties for Database Objects Using SECURITY LABELS (post by Andrei Lepikhov) pgedge.com/blog/custom-properties-for-postgres…

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