Re: Clarification in create_function.sgml

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Clarification in create_function.sgml
Date: 2003-10-21 16:46:07
Message-ID: 1066754767.17851.1.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-docs

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 17:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Oliver Elphick writes:
>
> > It is necessary for single quotes and backslashes in a function
> > definition to be escaped, but the reference page does not make this
> > clear.
>
> This ought to be implicit in it being a string literal.

Yes, but people sometimes need to have things spelt out.

It took a fairly lengthy correspondence to convince one bug reporter
that there was no bug; spelling it out for him in the reference would
have helped.

--
Oliver Elphick Oliver(dot)Elphick(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk
Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C
========================================
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not
on things on the earth." Colossians 3:1,2

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-docs by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2003-10-21 16:48:13 Re: Clarification in create_function.sgml
Previous Message Peter Eisentraut 2003-10-21 16:42:54 Re: Clarification in create_function.sgml