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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hsowa@bfk.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: 2012-02-27T15:30:36Z
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa <hsowa@bfk.de> wrote:
> As with recent changes to `standard_conforming_strings' the paragraph about
> backslash escaping in the description of `LIKE' is only confusing. Thus I
> attached a patch to remove it.

I think I agree with removing this paragraph; it made sense when
standard_conforming_strings=off was the default, but that's not so
anymore.  We could come up with some alternative text to insert here
but I think that might be unnecessarily long-winded.

Other opinions?

-- 
Robert Haas
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