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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: psql man page error?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:25:26 -0500
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Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> Well, it is even worse because some versions of echo automatically
> interpret backslashes, so it would have to be \\x.  I am thinking we
> should just leave it as I have it now, unless we want to use 'awk' or
> 'perl' where we know the backslash behavior.

The example as you have it now is directly contradictory to the
published spec.

I agree with Simon's suggestion to remove "-e" from the example
(thereby making it spec-compliant) and add a parenthetical remark
suggesting that standards-challenged versions of echo might need "-e".

			regards, tom lane

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