| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft |
| Date: | 2020-05-12 03:15:46 |
| Message-ID: | 20200512031546.GY4666@momjian.us |
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On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:08:35PM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> On 05/11/20 22:48, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:07:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> >>> Allow Unicode escapes, e.g., E'\u####', U&'\####', to represent any
> >>> character available in the database encoding, even when the database
> >>> encoding is not UTF-8 (Tom Lane)
> >>
> >> How about "to be used for" instead of "to represent"? "Represent" kind
> >> of sounds like we're using these on output, which we aren't.
> >
> > Uh, I think "used for" is worse though, since we are not using it. I
> > don't get the "output" feel of the word at all.
>
> 'specify' ?
I like that word if Tom prefers it.
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