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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/func.sgml20
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml5
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index e61a20aa396..5eee5b1156e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.393 2007/09/14 00:52:45 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.394 2007/09/14 14:54:25 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="functions">
<title>Functions and Operators</title>
@@ -2929,14 +2929,14 @@ cast(-44 as bit(12)) <lineannotation>111111010100</lineannotation>
</para>
<para>
- Note that the backslash already has a special meaning in string
- literals, so to write a pattern constant that contains a backslash
- you must write two backslashes in an SQL statement (assuming escape
- string syntax is used). Thus, writing a pattern
- that actually matches a literal backslash means writing four backslashes
- in the statement. You can avoid this by selecting a different escape
- character with <literal>ESCAPE</literal>; then a backslash is not special
- to <function>LIKE</function> anymore. (But it is still special to the string
+ Note that the backslash already has a special meaning in string literals,
+ so to write a pattern constant that contains a backslash you must write two
+ backslashes in an SQL statement (assuming escape string syntax is used, see
+ <xref linkend="sql-syntax-strings">). Thus, writing a pattern that
+ actually matches a literal backslash means writing four backslashes in the
+ statement. You can avoid this by selecting a different escape character
+ with <literal>ESCAPE</literal>; then a backslash is not special to
+ <function>LIKE</function> anymore. (But it is still special to the string
literal parser, so you still need two of them.)
</para>
@@ -3549,7 +3549,7 @@ SELECT foo FROM regexp_split_to_table('the quick brown fox', E'\\s*') AS foo;
meaning in <productname>PostgreSQL</> string literals.
To write a pattern constant that contains a backslash,
you must write two backslashes in the statement, assuming escape
- string syntax is used.
+ string syntax is used (see <xref linkend="sql-syntax-strings">).
</para>
</note>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index 1c033e30841..f98db479cd0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.244 2007/09/14 14:31:22 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml,v 1.245 2007/09/14 14:54:25 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="libpq">
<title><application>libpq</application> - C Library</title>
@@ -5097,7 +5097,8 @@ defaultNoticeProcessor(void *arg, const char *message)
user=appuser
ldap://ldap.acme.com/cn=dbserver,cn=hosts?pgconnectinfo?base?(objectclass=*)
</synopsis>
- <para>
+ </para>
+
</sect1>