Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E909F93E5 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:18:10 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56939-08 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:17:56 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F03429F9F46 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:18:01 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kB6FHs4C026002; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:17:54 -0500 (EST) To: Bruce Momjian cc: Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, Simon Riggs Subject: Re: psql man page error? In-reply-to: <200612061410.kB6EAu321746@momjian.us> References: <200612061410.kB6EAu321746@momjian.us> Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian message dated "Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:10:56 -0500" Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:17:54 -0500 Message-ID: <26001.1165418274@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200612/19 X-Sequence-Number: 3942 Bruce Momjian writes: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> 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. No, you've completely misunderstood the original example. It's intending to show a backslash-backslash terminator for the \x command, not two lines of input, ie the equivalent of this: regression=# \x \\ select 1,2; Expanded display is on. -[ RECORD 1 ] ?column? | 1 ?column? | 2 regards, tom lane