--- a/docs/source/intro.rst	Sat Feb 27 23:15:30 2010 -0500
+++ b/docs/source/intro.rst	Mon Mar 01 23:26:38 2010 -0500
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@
 * Current docs: http://packages.python.org/sqlpython/
 * Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/sqlpython
 
-SQLPython is a command-line interface to Oracle databases.  It is intended as an alternative to Oracle's
-SQL\*Plus.  For the most part, it can be used the same way SQL\*Plus would be used; this documentation
-focuses on the places where SQLPython differs.
+SQLPython is a command-line interface to relational databases.  It was created as an alternative to Oracle's
+``SQL\*Plus``, and can likewise be used instead of postgres' ``psql`` or mysql's ``mysql`` text clients.  
+For the most part, it can be used as any other text-based SQL interface would; this document focuses on 
+the extra capabilities 
 
 License
 -------
@@ -87,8 +88,11 @@
 Non-Oracle RDBMS
 ----------------
 
-As of sqlpython 1.6.4, preliminary work has begun to adapt sqlpython to non-Oracle databases.
-You may use it to run queries against postgreSQL, MySQL, etc., but data-dictionary access
-commands (`ls`, `grep`, `refs`, etc.) will generate errors.  Connection to non-Oracle databases
-is currently only possible via URL connection strings.
+Version 1.7.0 of sqlpython works against PostgreSQL and MySQL, though the testing against
+those databases has been very slight thus far.  Help in testing and improving sqlpython's
+functions against those databases is welcome.  Support for Microsoft SQL Server and sqlite
+will be available as soon as those databases are added to the Gerald project, and volunteers
+for Gerald will benefit sqlpython as well.
 
+As of 1.7.0, sqlpython sessions can only "see" metadata within the named schema belonging
+to the currently connected user.  A fix for this is expected for 1.7.1.
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--- a/sqlpython/sqlpyPlus.py	Sat Feb 27 23:15:30 2010 -0500
+++ b/sqlpython/sqlpyPlus.py	Mon Mar 01 23:26:38 2010 -0500
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 import sys, os, re, sqlpython, pyparsing, re, completion
 import datetime, pickle, binascii, subprocess, time, itertools, hashlib
 import traceback, operator
-from cmd2 import Cmd, make_option, options, Statekeeper, Cmd2TestCase
+from cmd2 import Cmd, make_option, options, Statekeeper, Cmd2TestCase, options_defined
 from output_templates import output_templates
 from metadata import metaqueries
 from plothandler import Plot
@@ -393,6 +393,9 @@
         version'''
         
     def __init__(self):
+        # override commentGrammars before top-level __init__, or they won't affect self.parser
+        self.doubleDashComment = pyparsing.NotAny(pyparsing.Or(options_defined)) + pyparsing.Literal('--') + pyparsing.restOfLine        
+        self.commentGrammars = pyparsing.Or([pyparsing.cStyleComment, self.doubleDashComment])
         sqlpython.sqlpython.__init__(self)
         self.binds = CaselessDict()
         if self.settable.has_key('case_insensitive'):
@@ -413,7 +416,6 @@
         self.rdbms_supported = Abbreviatable_List('oracle postgres mysql'.split())
         self.version = 'SQLPython %s' % sqlpython.__version__
         self.pystate = {'r': [], 'binds': self.binds, 'substs': self.substvars}
-        self.commentGrammars = pyparsing.Or([pyparsing.cStyleComment, self.doubleDashComment])
         
     # overrides cmd's parseline
     def parseline(self, line):