SQL query field can't begin by a comment

SQL comments are very useful to explain the meaning of the query. It’s currently impossible to put it at the beginning of the field as seen on the screen capture: it leads to an error: Statement must be a SELECT.

It would be great to make it possible because:

• as the request is the title of the page:
  • it eases the search with search engines
  • it eases the search in the browsers’ url field
• it acts as a kind of title: the global meaning of the query is immediately understandable
• some tools, such as Slack, are shortening long URLs and displaying the beginning of the URLs (eg. https://example.org/products?sql=select+%28length%28data_quality_errors_ta[...]+%21%3D+%22%22+group+by+NB_of_issues+order+by+NB_of_issues+desc+limit+200)

Beginning a query with a comment is possible with SQLite.

[simonw]

I think mine has a better pattern for handling /* ... anything in here that isn't */ ... */

[simonw]

Yeah we should fix this.

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_comment.html - SQLite also supports -- style comments.

I like how explicit the documentation is here:

SQL comments begin with two consecutive “-” characters (ASCII 0x2d) and extend up to and including the next newline character (ASCII 0x0a) or until the end of input, whichever comes first.

C-style comments begin with “/" and extend up to and including the next "/” character pair or until the end of input, whichever comes first. C-style comments can span multiple lines.