On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 7:07 AM David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
PG 9.6 and PG 14[quote]Any other character following a backslash is taken literally. Thus, to include a backslash character, write two backslashes (\\). Also, a single quote can be included in an escape string by writing\', in addition to the normal way of''.[/quote]The link you provided goes to the wrong subsection.
Ah...you just linked to the section on constants where all the various incarnations are subsections.
It would be a nice addition to include some examples in the section pertaining to escape syntax. Make it more clear how it differs from just a non-escaping literal. Maybe put something like \n into the basic literal section showing that it outputs the literal two characters instead of a newline.
David J.
