Re: BUG #5795: 9.0.2 PDF needs editing

Excerpts from Leslie Satenstein's message of dom dic 19 23:39:38 -0300 2010:

> Using pdf for 9.0.2 version,
>
> The insert examples in section 2.4 do not function if a cut and paste from
> pdf to psql is done
>
> This is the problem
> INSERT INTO weather VALUES (’San Francisco’, 46, 50, 0.25,
> ’1994-11-27’);
> The fields city and date should have ' as delimiter, not
> ’
> Corrected is the following that works. Error messages are not clear. It
> would be great if psql indicated invalid character as error type.
>
> INSERT INTO weather VALUES ('San Francisco', 46, 50, 0.25, '1994-11-27');
>
> In fact, there is a lot of touching up that needs to be done to this english
> pdf document. (I can do it or I can prepare a list of pages and changes
> needed to make a cleaner document)

This is probably a problem in the toolchain used to produce the PDF
rather than a problem in the source. Please have a look at the HTML
version and see if these examples are correct there, before spending
time on doing any of this.

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