On 8/6/21 3:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Alan Stange <stange@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> In order to track down some bugs, we thought it would be useful to >> append some comments to the sql being sent to postgresql like this: >> select foo from bar -- a comment with some metadata >> however, the postgresql server was not including the appended comment in >> the log file. >> If we instead sent >> select foo from /* a comment with some metadata */ bar >> then the comment was included in the server log file as we had hoped. > If memory serves, this is a psql behavior not the server's. > I counsel using /* ... */ comments for the purpose. Thank you Tom, I tried both psql and connecting through jdbc and both had the same behavior, so assumed this was something in the server. We will go with /* */ to resolve the immediate problem, and will ask on the jdbc mailing list about this. Being able to freely append some comments for debugging/tracking purposes in the server logs seems like a useful feature. Thank you, Alan
