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U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (0xe2 0x80 0x8b) in PostgreSQL documentation
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/infoschema-administrable-role-authorizations.html Description: In official html documentation there are issue U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (0xe2 0x80 0x8b) in text of some keywords, some identificators and some literals. When copy-pasting to the SQL command, an error occurs because of this. For example in page infoschema-administrable-role-authorizations.html on site (https://www.postgresql.org/account/comments/new/15/infoschema-administrable-role-authorizations.html/) and in linux doc {/usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc-13/html/infoschema-administrable-role-authorizations.html}. See below excerpt text from the abovementioned page contains: administrable_role_<200b>authorizations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>36.4. administrable_role_<200b>authorizations</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="infoschema-information-schema-catalog-name.html" title="36.3. information_schema_catalog_name" /><link rel="next" href="infoschema-applicable-roles.html" title="36.5. applicable_roles" /></head><body id="docContent" class="container-fluid col-10"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">36.4. <code xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="literal">administrable_role_<200b>authorizations</code></th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="infoschema-information-schema-catalog-name.html" title="36.3. information_schema_catalog_name">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="information-schema.html" title="Chapter 36. The Information Schema">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 36. The Information Schema</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 13.11 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="infoschema-applicable-roles.html" title="36.5. applicable_roles">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></hr></div><div class="sect1" id="INFOSCHEMA-ADMINISTRABLE-ROLE-AUTHORIZATIONS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">36.4. <code class="literal">administrable_role_<200b>authorizations</code></h2></div></div></div><p> The view <code class="literal">administrable_role_authorizations</code> identifies all roles that the current user has the admin option for.
PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes: > In official html documentation there are issue U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (0xe2 > 0x80 0x8b) in text of some keywords, some identificators and some literals. > When copy-pasting to the SQL command, an error occurs because of this. > For example in page infoschema-administrable-role-authorizations.html on > site > (https://www.postgresql.org/account/comments/new/15/infoschema-administrable-role-authorizations.html/) Yeah. Those are there to allow line breaks in the PDF output, which would otherwise be too wide in those places. If you know a way to get the XML toolchain to allow line breaks in PDF without putting invisible characters into other formats, let us know. regards, tom lane