Re: psql man page error?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Well, it is even worse because some versions of echo automatically
> > interpret backslashes, so it would have to be \\x. I am thinking we
> > should just leave it as I have it now, unless we want to use 'awk' or
> > 'perl' where we know the backslash behavior.
>
> The example as you have it now is directly contradictory to the
> published spec.
>
> I agree with Simon's suggestion to remove "-e" from the example
> (thereby making it spec-compliant) and add a parenthetical remark
> suggesting that standards-challenged versions of echo might need "-e".

Well, I just tried Linux and FreeBSD bash (the default shell?) and they
both need '-e' to render '\n' as a newline, so I think we should just
leave it with '-e'. Following the spec doesn't help if our two major
operating systems don't follow the spec, plus the example doesn't work
on Win32 at all.

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