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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove confusing paragraph about backslash escaping

Hannes Frederic Sowa <hsowa@bfk.de>

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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hsowa@bfk.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: 2012-02-28T09:45:06Z
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On 02/28/2012 12:10 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I suggest replacing the first and third cases with something along the
> lines of
>
> 	Note: if you have standard_conforming_strings turned off, any
> 	backslashes you write in literal string constants will need to be
> 	doubled.  See Section 4.1.2.1 for more information.
>
> The second case is just a parenthetical comment and perhaps could be
> removed.

Definitely OK by me. Thanks for looking into this!

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