Nik and Michael discuss query level comments, object level comments, and another way of adding object level metadata.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:

• Object comments https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-comment.html
• Query comment syntax (from an old version of the docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.0/syntax519.htm
• SQL Comments, Please! (Post by Markus Winand) https://modern-sql.com/caniuse/comments
• “While C-style block comments are passed to the server for processing and removal, SQL-standard comments are removed by psql.” https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html
• marginalia https://github.com/basecamp/marginalia
• track_activity_query_size https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-statistics.html#GUC-TRACK-ACTIVITY-QUERY-SIZE
• Custom Properties for Database Objects Using SECURITY LABELS (post by Andrei Lepikhov) https://www.pgedge.com/blog/custom-properties-for-postgresql-database-objects-without-core-patches

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Postgres FM is produced by:

• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

With credit to:

• Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork