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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-09-21 20:33:34 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-09-21 20:33:34 +0000
commit1128f5565906c32f0ace2feae3352f68d28e5850 (patch)
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Fix postgresql.conf lexer to accept doubled single quotes in literal
strings. This is consistent with SQL conventions, and since Bruce already changed initdb in a way that assumed it worked like this, seems we'd better make it work like this.
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/config.sgml5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 52852ee6c24..6e9cc4817db 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.18 2005/09/19 17:21:46 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.19 2005/09/21 20:33:33 tgl Exp $
-->
<chapter Id="runtime-config">
<title>Run-time Configuration</title>
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ search_path = '$user, public'
value is optional. Whitespace is insignificant and blank lines are
ignored. Hash marks (<literal>#</literal>) introduce comments
anywhere. Parameter values that are not simple identifiers or
- numbers must be single-quoted.
+ numbers must be single-quoted. To embed a single quote in a parameter
+ value, write either two quotes (preferred) or backslash-quote.
</para>
<para>