COMMENT ON NODE
Adds, revises, or removes a comment on a node.
Adds, revises, or removes a comment on a node. Each object can have one comment. Comments are stored in the system table
COMMENTS.
Dropping an object drops all comments associated with the object.
Syntax
COMMENT ON NODE node-name IS { 'comment' | NULL }
Parameters
node-name- The name of the node associated with the comment.
comment- Specifies the comment text to add. If a comment already exists for this node, 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.
NULL- Removes an existing comment.
Privileges
Non-superuser: object owner
Examples
The following example adds a comment for the initiator node:
=> COMMENT ON NODE initiator IS 'Initiator node';
The following example removes a comment from the initiator node:
=> COMMENT ON NODE initiator IS NULL;