Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove confusing paragraph about backslash escaping

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hsowa(at)bfk(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove confusing paragraph about backslash escaping
Date: 2012-02-27 15:30:36
Message-ID: CA+TgmoY6-YL1OQ34709yTZbt4Onr+pSDUi95x2YSP4iO0iVBrw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa <hsowa(at)bfk(dot)de> wrote:
> As with recent changes to `standard_conforming_strings' the paragraph about
> backslash escaping in the description of `LIKE' is only confusing. Thus I
> attached a patch to remove it.

I think I agree with removing this paragraph; it made sense when
standard_conforming_strings=off was the default, but that's not so
anymore. We could come up with some alternative text to insert here
but I think that might be unnecessarily long-winded.

Other opinions?

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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