Re: bytea char escaping

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Stephen Robert Norris <srn(at)commsecure(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Ivar <ivar(at)lumisoft(dot)ee>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Patches (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bytea char escaping
Date: 2003-06-25 06:15:16
Message-ID: 3EF93DF4.3030507@joeconway.com
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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.

Please apply.

Joe

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