COMMENT ON VIEW

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

Syntax

COMMENT ON VIEW [schema.]view‑name IS { 'comment' | NULL }

Parameters

schema

Specifies a schema. If multiple schemas are defined in the database, include the schema name. For example:

myschema.thisDbObject
view‑name

The name of the view with which to associate the comment.

comment

Specifies the text of the comment to add. If a comment already exists for this view, 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.

Enclose a blank value in single quotes to remove an existing comment.

NULL

Removes an existing comment.

Privileges

Examples

The following example adds a comment to a view called curr_month_ship:

=> COMMENT ON VIEW curr_month_ship IS 'Shipping data for the current month';

The following example removes a comment from the curr_month_ship view:

=> COMMENT ON VIEW curr_month_ship IS NULL;