From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:16:22 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: docs: psql '--' comments are not passed to the server
X-Git-Tag: REL9_4_BETA1~196
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docs: psql '--' comments are not passed to the server

C-style block comments are passed to the server.
---

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index 5dce06af26e..85899d78fc5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -679,6 +679,12 @@ testdb=&gt;
     <xref linkend="SQL-LISTEN"> and
     <xref linkend="SQL-NOTIFY">.
     </para>
+
+    <para>
+    While C-style block comments are passed to the server for
+    processing and removal, SQL-standard comments are removed by
+    <application>psql</application>.
+    </para>
   </refsect2>
 
   <refsect2 id="APP-PSQL-meta-commands">