Re: Table 9.46. UUID Extraction Functions - Mailing list pgsql-docs

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> On Thu, 2026-10-08 at 04:21 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
>> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/functions-uuid.html
>>
>> Examples not working; (zero-width space)
>>
>> select uuid_extract_version('41db1265-8bc1-4ab3-992f-​885799a4af1d'::uuid);
>> ПОМИЛКА:  неприпустимий синтаксис для типу uuid:
>> "41db1265-8bc1-4ab3-992f-​885799a4af1d"
>> LINE 1: select uuid_extract_version('41db1265-8bc1-4ab3-992f-​8857...

> Right.  That must have slipped in by mistake.

Not in the least.  Those, and every other &zwsp; in the SGML docs,
are there so that the PDF version renders without complaints about
overlength lines.  For cases like this, FOP is not bright enough
to break what looks to it like one huge word, so we have to help it
out by putting in fake whitespace.

If you know another way to accomplish that goal, I wouldn't mind
changing.  But just removing these characters isn't OK.

I'm not personally of the opinion that copying-and-pasting our
examples is a useful thing to do, so I'm not particularly concerned
about this complaint.

            regards, tom lane