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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2003-07-18 03:45:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2003-07-18 03:45:06 +0000 |
| commit | fd4c775481f402dda989131edd28d365914cd528 (patch) | |
| tree | 20bf9114a9986bb014a9c2ddf0aa300bcfa31e77 | |
| parent | 5ea214b590f626154d11a28214ca7c774d9f8cb3 (diff) | |
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Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> Well, no. What it says is that certain values must be escaped (but
> doesn't say which ones). Then it says there are alternate escape
> sequences for some values, which it lists.
>
> It doesn't say "The following table contains the characters which must
> be escaped:", which would be much clearer (and actually useful).
Attached documentation patch updates the wording for bytea input
escaping, per complaint by Stephen Norris above.
Joe Conway
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index be63b79c5be..348e1427735 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.119 2003/06/25 03:50:52 momjian Exp $ +$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.120 2003/07/18 03:45:06 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="datatype"> @@ -1062,8 +1062,9 @@ SELECT b, char_length(b) FROM test2; literal in an <acronym>SQL</acronym> statement. In general, to escape an octet, it is converted into the three-digit octal number equivalent of its decimal octet value, and preceded by two - backslashes. Some octet values have alternate escape sequences, as - shown in <xref linkend="datatype-binary-sqlesc">. + backslashes. <xref linkend="datatype-binary-sqlesc"> contains the + characters which must be escaped, and gives the alternate escape + sequences where applicable. </para> <table id="datatype-binary-sqlesc"> |