Yes this is much clearer. I got this part working, but some some chars is handled wrong. I'm using 7.3.1 in windows.
eg. alt 152 is handeld wrong. there is some encoding problems, any ideas ? "Joe Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Robert Norris wrote: > Well, no. What it says is that certain values must be escaped (but > doesn't say which ones). Then it says there are alternate escape > sequences for some values, which it lists. > > It doesn't say "The following table contains the characters which must > be escaped:", which would be much clearer (and actually useful). Attached documentation patch updates the wording for bytea input escaping, per complaint by Stephen Norris above. Please apply. Joe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Index: doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /opt/src/cvs/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.119 diff -c -r1.119 datatype.sgml *** doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml 25 Jun 2003 03:50:52 -0000 1.119 --- doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml 25 Jun 2003 06:19:28 -0000 *************** *** 1062,1069 **** literal in an SQL statement. In general, to escape an octet, it is converted into the three-digit octal number equivalent of its decimal octet value, and preceded by two ! backslashes. Some octet values have alternate escape sequences, as ! shown in . --- 1062,1070 ---- literal in an SQL statement. In general, to escape an octet, it is converted into the three-digit octal number equivalent of its decimal octet value, and preceded by two ! backslashes. contains the ! characters which must be escaped, and gives the alternate escape ! sequences where applicable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
