Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDCC9F9C35 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:11:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11332-08 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:11:05 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474389F9C9E for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:11:04 -0400 (AST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id kB6EAu321746; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:10:56 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200612061410.kB6EAu321746@momjian.us> Subject: Re: psql man page error? In-Reply-To: <200612061203.59008.peter_e@gmx.net> To: Peter Eisentraut Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:10:56 -0500 (EST) CC: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, Simon Riggs X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL123] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200612/17 X-Sequence-Number: 3940 Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 18:41 schrieb Bruce Momjian: > > psql, like this: echo "\x \\ > > select * from foo;" | psql. > > > > 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. Well, if it doesn't render \\ at the end of the line, the example isn't very clear unless you are looking at the SGML. -- Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +