Re: 8.1 release notes

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 02:01, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:26:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> writes:
> > > > Is the intention that standard_conforming_strings will always be
> > > > read-only?
> > >
> > > For the moment it's read-only false; the long-term goal is that it will
> > > be read-only true. In between we will have a release or three where it
> > > is modifiable to some extent. I personally think it would be a *bad*
> > > idea if it were a mere USERSET variable --- we learned from the
> > > autocommit fiasco that changing fundamental semantics on a whim does
> > > not work. But there will need to be some way to alter it for testing
> > > purposes during the interregnum.
> >
> > The 'autocommit fiasco' isn't ringing a bell right now, so I'll take
> > your word for it. :)
> >
> > Bruce, can you add some info about this to
> > http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgescape ? I intend to link to that when
> > I submit a patch to the release notes that links to more info on the
> > individual items.
>
> it seems odd to me to be linking to random pages on the net from the release
> notes... could that content be folder into the docs themselves and then a
> pointer to the relevent section of the docs be given instead?

Yes, I am thinking that is best too.

I have added this to the release notes:

Also, use two single-quotes ('') to embed a literal single-quote
in a string, rather than the PostgreSQL-supported syntax of
backslash single-quote (\'). The former is standards-conforming
and does not require the use of the E'' string syntax. You can
also use the $$ string syntax, which does not treat backslashes
specially.

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