Ah, slight ambiguity here. Perhaps this might best say "Any other
character following a backslash is taken literally, and the backslash
is removed."
Thanks,
-- Andy
On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Andy Anderson <aanderson@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
In a test I just did, the sequence \" (backslash double-quote) is
interpreted as just a " inside of the E'...' string constant
expression. This is great, since PHP's addslashes() sticks them in
along with the other stuff I really need to quote like ' and \. But I
see that \" isn't documented in the manual in section 4.1.2.1.
Huh? It says
Any other character following a backslash is taken literally.
regards, tom lane