From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Remove obsolete mention of backslashes as escapes
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:54:11 +0200
Message-ID: <0b03f91a875fb44182f5bed9e1d404ed6d138066.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
The documentation in
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-DOLLAR-QUOTING
says that
"While the standard syntax for specifying string constants is usually convenient,
it can be difficult to understand when the desired string contains many single
quotes or backslashes, since each of those must be doubled."
But this has been obsolete ever since version 9.1, when "standard_conforming_strings"
started to default to "on". It has confused at least one reader:
https://dba.stackexchange.com/q/325850/176905
So I propose to remove the mention of backslashes there.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
Attachments:
[text/x-patch] 0001-Remove-obsolete-mention-of-backslashes-as-escapes.patch (1.2K, ../0b03f91a875fb44182f5bed9e1d404ed6d138066.camel@cybertec.at/2-0001-Remove-obsolete-mention-of-backslashes-as-escapes.patch)
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From 282d2dae27524aef37cdafe02e4833894bf5892c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:48:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove obsolete mention of backslashes as escapes
Since version 9.1, standard_conforming_strings defaults to "on".
So the remark that backslashes must be doubled has been obsolete
for a long time and should be removed. It is more confusing than
helpful by now.
---
doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgmlindex 5668ab0143..3ba844057f 100644--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ U&'d!0061t!+000061' UESCAPE '!'
<para>
While the standard syntax for specifying string constants is usually
convenient, it can be difficult to understand when the desired string
- contains many single quotes or backslashes, since each of those must+ contains many single quotes, since each of those must
be doubled. To allow more readable queries in such situations,
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> provides another way, called
<quote>dollar quoting</quote>, to write string constants.
--
2.39.2
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