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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2005-08-24 14:35:26 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2005-08-24 14:35:26 +0000
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Update release notes.
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<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.353 2005/08/24 03:47:11 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.354 2005/08/24 14:35:26 momjian Exp $
-->
<appendix id="release">
@@ -299,7 +299,13 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.353 2005/08/24 03:47:11 momjian
will be treated literally in non-E strings. To prepare for this
change, use E'' strings in places that need special backslash
processing, and turn on escape_string_warning to find additional
- strings that need to be converted to use <literal>E''</>.
+ strings that need to be converted to use <literal>E''</>. Also,
+ use two single-quotes ('') to embed a literal single-quote
+ in a string, rather than the PostgreSQL-supported syntax of
+ backslash single-quote (\'). The former is standards-conforming
+ and does not require the use of the E'' string syntax. You can
+ also use the $$ string syntax, which does not treat backslashes
+ specially.
</para>
</listitem>