Re: psql man page error? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 18:41 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> >       <application>psql</application>, like this: <literal>echo "\x \\
> >       select * from foo;" | psql</literal>.
> >
> > and I suppose the asumption was that the \\ would be at the end of the
> > output line, but in fact both HTML and manual pages just put the \\
> > anywhere on the line.
>
> Which is correct.  Removing the \\ alters the point of the example.

Well, if it doesn't render \\ at the end of the line, the example isn't
very clear unless you are looking at the SGML.

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