Patch applied. Thanks.
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Joe Conway wrote:
> 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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> Index: doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
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> RCS file: /opt/src/cvs/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.119
> diff -c -r1.119 datatype.sgml
> *** doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml 25 Jun 2003 03:50:52 -0000 1.119
> --- doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml 25 Jun 2003 06:19:28 -0000
> ***************
> *** 1062,1069 ****
> literal in an <acronym>SQL</acronym> statement. In general, to
> escape an octet, it is converted into the three-digit octal number
> equivalent of its decimal octet value, and preceded by two
> ! backslashes. Some octet values have alternate escape sequences, as
> ! shown in <xref linkend="datatype-binary-sqlesc">.
> </para>
>
> <table id="datatype-binary-sqlesc">
> --- 1062,1070 ----
> literal in an <acronym>SQL</acronym> statement. In general, to
> escape an octet, it is converted into the three-digit octal number
> equivalent of its decimal octet value, and preceded by two
> ! backslashes. <xref linkend="datatype-binary-sqlesc"> contains the
> ! characters which must be escaped, and gives the alternate escape
> ! sequences where applicable.
> </para>
>
> <table id="datatype-binary-sqlesc">
>
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