COMMENT ON SEQUENCE

Adds, revises, or removes a comment on a sequence. Each object can have one comment. Comments are stored in the system table COMMENTS.

Syntax

COMMENT ON SEQUENCE [[database.]schema.]sequence IS { 'comment' | NULL }

Parameters

[database.]schema

Specifies a schema, by default public. If schema is any schema other than public, you must supply the schema name. For example:

myschema.thisDbObject

If you specify a database, it must be the current database.

sequence

The name of the sequence associated with the comment.

comment

Specifies the text of the comment to add. If a comment already exists for this sequence, this comment overwrites the previous one.

Comments can be up to 8192 characters in length. If a comment exceeds that limitation, Vertica truncates the comment and alerts the user with a message.

You can enclose a blank value within single quotes to remove an existing comment.

NULL

Removes an existing comment.

Privileges

Superuser or object owner

Examples

The following example adds a comment to the sequence called prom_seq.

=> COMMENT ON SEQUENCE prom_seq IS 'Promotion codes';

The following examples remove a comment from the prom_seq sequence.

=> COMMENT ON SEQUENCE prom_seq IS NULL;
=> COMMENT ON SEQUENCE prom_seq IS '';