Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove confusing paragraph about backslash escaping - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Florian Weimer
Subject Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove confusing paragraph about backslash escaping
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Msg-id 824nucnu4w.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove confusing paragraph about backslash escaping  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* Tom Lane:

> Hannes Frederic Sowa <hsowa@bfk.de> writes:
>> 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.
>
> The para is still relevant if you don't have standard_conforming_strings
> on.

And if you aren't using parametrized queries.  The old text is a bit
misleading even with standard_conforming_strings set to off.  It is
technically correct because it refers to the SQL statement parser which
is run on parameters, but this seems a pretty fine distinction.

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