COMMENT ON AGGREGATE FUNCTION

Adds, revises, or removes a comment on an aggregate function.

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

Syntax

COMMENT ON AGGREGATE FUNCTION [[database.]schema.]function (function-args) IS { 'comment' | NULL };

[database.]schema: Database and schema. The default schema is public. If you specify a database, it must be the current database.
function: The name of the aggregate function with which to associate the comment.
function-args: The function arguments.
comment: Specifies the comment text to add. If a comment already exists for this function, this overwrites the previous one.
Comments can be up to 8192 characters in length. If a comment exceeds that limitation, Vertica truncates the comment and emits a message.
NULL: Removes an existing comment.

Non-superuser: object owner

The following example adds a comment to the APPROXIMATE_MEDIAN(x FLOAT) function:

=> COMMENT ON AGGREGATE FUNCTION APPROXIMATE_MEDIAN(x FLOAT) IS 'alias of APPROXIMATE_PERCENTILE with 0.5 as its parameter';

The following example removes a comment from the APPROXIMATE_MEDIAN(x FLOAT) function:

=> COMMENT ON AGGREGATE FUNCTION APPROXIMATE_MEDIAN(x FLOAT) IS NULL;