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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] small doc patch for regexp_replace
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 13:51:00 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>,
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > There are many mentions of <parameter>string</> used a function
> > arguments in func.sgml.  Should those be changed to <type>text</>?
> 
> <parameter>string</> is fine, especially if the function actually has a
> separate variant for bpchar.  I was just unhappy with <type>string</>,

FYI, in most cases, they don't have bpchar variants.

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