Re: [HACKERS] patches for items from TODO list

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Sergey Ten <sergey(at)sourcelabs(dot)com>, "'Christopher Kings-Lynne'" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, jason(at)sourcelabs(dot)com, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] patches for items from TODO list
Date: 2005-05-30 14:51:39
Message-ID: 200505301451.j4UEpdi25322@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> > Third, I found out that psql has some unusual handling of escaped
> > numbers. Instead of using \ddd as octal, it has \ddd is decimal, \0ddd
> > is octal, and \0xddd is decimal. It is basically following the strtol()
> > rules for an escaped value. This seems confusing and contradicts how
> > the rest of our system works.
>
> I agree, that's just going to confuse people.

Fixed and applied, with no hex addition.

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