Subject: Re: Clarification in create_function.sgml
From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:46:07 +0100
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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 17:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Oliver Elphick writes:
> 
> > It is necessary for single quotes and backslashes in a function
> > definition to be escaped, but the reference page does not make this
> > clear.
> 
> This ought to be implicit in it being a string literal.

Yes, but people sometimes need to have things spelt out.

It took a fairly lengthy correspondence to convince one bug reporter
that there was no bug; spelling it out for him in the reference would
have helped.

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