Re: LIKE INCLUDING COMMENTS code is a flight of fancy

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I'm for forbidding comments on index columns.  The amount of work
> required to support the feature fully seems far out of proportion to
> its value.
>
> In any case, if pg_dump drops such comments (which I had forgotten,
> but it seems true after a quick look at the code), then we could
> certainly get away with having LIKE not copy them.  That would fix
> the immediate problem.
>
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If we're going to keep the comments we should dump them. I don't mind 
dropping them altogether - it's hardly a killer feature. We should just 
be consistent, IMNSHO.

cheers

andrew