Re: psql eating backslashes

Jan Wieck writes:

>     seems  to me that psql thinks to know a little too much about
>     quoting. I'm not able to qoute a backslash at the  end  of  a
>     line:
> 
>         xxx=# select 'a\\b\\
>         xxx'# c';
>          ?column?
>         ----------
>          a\b
>         c
>         (1 row)

I committed a fix that should give you better results.

peter=# select 'abc\\
peter'# def';
 ?column?
----------
 abc\
def
(1 row)

But what should

peter=# select 'abc\
peter'# def';

do? This doesn't seem right:

 ?column?
----------
 abc
def
(1 row)

Should the newline be stripped?


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