On Dienstag, 4. März 2008 Shahaf Abileah wrote: > create table table_with_comments(a int comment 'this is > column a...'); > (see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-table.html) > However, Postgres doesn't support the "comment" keyword. Is there an > alternative? This sounds nice at first thought... but: you need to document tables also, and relations between tables etc. And especially the complex dependencies can't be documented that way ("if you insert this here, look into table x and y and compare this with table z, blabla"). And I'd like to know how often such funny documentation can be found when it's used, take your example: > create table table_with_comments(a int comment 'this is > column a...'); I've seen such documentation a lot - just bought a Nokia E65 mobile phone, it's handbook has this kind of documentation printed in it... worthless. But, BTW, does anybody have a good tool to show graphically the relations between tables, and maybe even draw relations between tables and create all necessary commands from this automatically? That would be nice, along with documentation features... mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc ----- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0676/846 914 666 .network.your.ideas. // PGP Key: "curl -s http://zmi.at/zmi.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: AC19 F9D5 36ED CD8A EF38 500E CE14 91F7 1C12 09B4 // Keyserver: www.keyserver.net Key-ID: 1C1209B4
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