> On 4 Sep 2025, at 11:54, Erik Rijkers <[email protected]> wrote: > In my hands, copy/pasting from the website page html intto psql these don't > work: > > ------ > testdb=# select > uuid_extract_version('41db1265-8bc1-4ab3-992f-885799a4af1d'::uuid); > ERROR: invalid input syntax for type uuid: > "41db1265-8bc1-4ab3-992f-885799a4af1d" > LINE 1: select uuid_extract_version('41db1265-8bc1-4ab3-992f-885799... > ------ > > Apparently, that's because of the dash characters used: if I re-type those > with simple keyboard-minus chars, the statement works as expected.
I believe it is because there is a &zwsp; encoded before the last group, which was added in a6524105d20b in order to aid line breaking. > If I copy/paste the result values of the previous table (9.45. UUID > Generation Functions) into the uuid_extract_version() function, then the > examples work so there the dash-characters are apparently ok. There is no zero-width-space character there since those lines aren't long enough to cause line breaks. > It's not a huge problem but it would be nice to fix the sgml so that it > generates copy/paste runnable examples here. Agreed, it would be a nice to have, but not a showstopper. -- Daniel Gustafsson
