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

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove confusing paragraph about backslash escaping
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Msg-id CA+TgmoY6-YL1OQ34709yTZbt4Onr+pSDUi95x2YSP4iO0iVBrw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to [PATCH] Documentation: remove confusing paragraph about backslash escaping  (Hannes Frederic Sowa <hsowa@bfk.de>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remove confusing paragraph about backslash escaping  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa <hsowa@bfk.de> wrote:
> 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.

I think I agree with removing this paragraph; it made sense when
standard_conforming_strings=off was the default, but that's not so
anymore.  We could come up with some alternative text to insert here
but I think that might be unnecessarily long-winded.

Other opinions?

-- 
Robert Haas
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