Bug #25370 database comment
Submitted: 2 Jan 2007 16:28 Modified: 29 Dec 2009 6:42
Reporter: Hans Ginzel Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: DDL Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.0, 5.1, 8.0 OS:Linux (All OS)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: database comment

[2 Jan 2007 16:28] Hans Ginzel
Description:
Add comments to databases/schemas (varchar(255)).

How to repeat:
desc information_schema.SCHEMATA;

Suggested fix:
alter table information_schema.SCHEMATA
add column SCHEMA_COMMENT varchar(255);

CREATE DATABASE xxx COMMENT 'comment';

ALTER DATABASE COMMENT 'other comment';

in documentation

ALTER {DATABASE | SCHEMA} [db_name]
    alter_specification [, alter_specification] ...

alter_specification:
    database_option ...
[29 Dec 2009 6:42] Susanne Ebrecht
Many thanks for a reasonable feature request.
[15 Nov 2012 9:46] Pavel Dobryakov
Is-there any plans to implement this feature?
[16 Aug 2023 12:28] MySQL Verification Team
Bug #112070 marked as duplicate of this one.