Hello,
here is a proposed patch.
On 06/19/2016 02:29 PM, Martín Marqués wrote:
> El 19/06/16 a las 09:11, dpa-postgres@aegee.org escribió:
>>
>> doc/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml > Advanced Features > Prompting > %R forgets to
>> state, that in prompt 2 the substitution can be open parenthesis, as seen
>> in the beginning of the Examples section.
>>
>> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml#l3632
>
> That's correct, and a good catch.
>
> Could you provide a patch which fixes the documentation?
>
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doc/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml > Advanced Features > Prompting > %R forgets to
state, that in prompt 2 the substitution can be an open parenthesis, as
seen in the beginning of the Examples section: testdb=> CREATE TABLE my_table ( testdb(> first integer not null
default0, testdb(> second text) testdb-> ; CREATE TABLE
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index aef7228..972e38a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -3630,11 +3630,11 @@ testdb=> <userinput>INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (:'content');</userinput> in
single-linemode, and <literal>!</literal> if the session is disconnected from the database (which can happen if
<command>\connect</command> fails). In prompt 2 the sequence is
- replaced by <literal>-</literal>, <literal>*</literal>, a single quote,
+ replaced by <literal>-</literal>, <literal>*</literal>, <literal>(</literal>, a single quote, a double
quote,or a dollar sign, depending on whether <application>psql</application> expects more input because the
command wasn't terminated yet, because you are inside a
- <literal>/* ... */</literal> comment, or because you are inside
+ <literal>/* ... */</literal> comment, because psql expects a closing parenthesis, or because you are inside
a quoted or dollar-escaped string. In prompt 3 the sequence doesn't produce anything. </para>
