Re: Remove obsolete mention of backslashes as escapes

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 3:54 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
wrote:

> The documentation in
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-DOLLAR-QUOTING
> says that
>
> "While the standard syntax for specifying string constants is usually
> convenient,
> it can be difficult to understand when the desired string contains many
> single
> quotes or backslashes, since each of those must be doubled."
>
> But this has been obsolete ever since version 9.1, when
> "standard_conforming_strings"
> started to default to "on". It has confused at least one reader:
> https://dba.stackexchange.com/q/325850/176905
>
> So I propose to remove the mention of backslashes there.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>
+1 I like this.. It's more clear and more accurate!