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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: psql man page error?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:03:57 +0100
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Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 18:41 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
>       <application>psql</application>, like this: <literal>echo "\x \\
>       select * from foo;" | psql</literal>.
>
> and I suppose the asumption was that the \\ would be at the end of the
> output line, but in fact both HTML and manual pages just put the \\
> anywhere on the line.

Which is correct.  Removing the \\ alters the point of the example.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/