Re: FYI To Postgres Authors

> > The description of the "substring" function in the 7.1 docs is still wrong:
> > substring('Thomas' from 2 for 3) -> 'oma'
> > No, it's 'hom'.
>
> Yup. I should have used the database to calculate it, eh? Will be fixed.
> Thanks.

I see in SGML:

<entry><literal>substring('Thomas' from 2 for 3)</literal></entry>
<entry><literal>hom</literal></entry>

Looks OK to me, and in the database:

test=> select substring('Thomas' from 2 for 3);
substring
-----------
hom
(1 row)

My guess is that we fixed it after 7.1.

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