Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft
Date: 2020-05-12 02:48:17
Message-ID: 20200512024816.GW4666@momjian.us
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On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:07:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > I like your wording, but the "that encoding" wasn't clear enough for me,
> > so I reworded it to:
>
> > Allow Unicode escapes, e.g., E'\u####', U&'\####', to represent any
> > character available in the database encoding, even when the database
> > encoding is not UTF-8 (Tom Lane)
>
> How about "to be used for" instead of "to represent"? "Represent" kind
> of sounds like we're using these on output, which we aren't.

Uh, I think "used for" is worse though, since we are not using it. I
don't get the "output" feel of the word at all.

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