COMMENT ON LIBRARY

Adds, revises, or removes a comment on a library.

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

Syntax

COMMENT ON LIBRARY [[database.]schema.]library IS {'comment' | NULL}

[database.]schema: Database and schema. The default schema is public. If you specify a database, it must be the current database.
library: The name of the library associated with the comment.
comment: Specifies the comment text to add. If a comment already exists for this library, 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.

Non-superuser: object owner

The following example adds a comment to the library MyFunctions:

=> COMMENT ON LIBRARY MyFunctions IS 'In development';

The following example removes a comment from the library MyFunctions:

=> COMMENT ON LIBRARY MyFunctions IS NULL;