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From: Andy Anderson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Quoting "
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:33:19 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Ah, slight ambiguity here. Perhaps this might best say "Any other  
character following a backslash is taken literally, and the backslash  
is removed."

Thanks,

-- Andy

On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Andy Anderson <[email protected]> writes:
>> In a test I just did, the sequence \" (backslash double-quote) is
>> interpreted as just a " inside of the E'...' string constant
>> expression. This is great, since PHP's addslashes() sticks them in
>> along with the other stuff I really need to quote like ' and \. But I
>> see that \" isn't documented in the manual in section 4.1.2.1.
>
> Huh?  It says
>
>    Any other character following a backslash is taken literally.
>
> 			regards, tom lane

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