With the help of Bruce Momjian and Tom Lane I was able to resolve my two
issues:
In PG 7.0.x, the following won't work because of the single apostrophe:
> test=> select *
> test-> /* doesn't work...
> test'> */
> test'> from pg_language;
It is reportedly fixed for 7.1
The following will display any column comments for "mytable"
\d+ mytable
Brian E. Pangburn
"Brian E. Pangburn" <bepangburn@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:94i0d5$15s6$1@news.tht.net...
> 1. Is it documented anywhere that an apostrophe / single quote is bad news
> inside of a C-style /* .... */ comment? I just found out the hard way.
> Seems to be OK inside of the one line -- comment.
> 2. How does one view column comments created with COMMENT ON COLUMN?
>
> TIA.
> Brian E. Pangburn