Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

From: Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: 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 03:08:35
Message-ID: 5EBA1333.1080706@anastigmatix.net
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On 05/11/20 22:48, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:07:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>>> 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.

'specify' ?

-Chap

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