COMMENT ON SEQUENCE

Adds, revises, or removes a comment on a 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 }

[database.]schema: Database and schema. The default schema is public. 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.
NULL: Removes an existing comment.

Non-superuser: object owner

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

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

The following example removes a comment from the prom_seq sequence.

=> COMMENT ON SEQUENCE prom_seq IS NULL;