From 1128f5565906c32f0ace2feae3352f68d28e5850 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:33:34 +0000
Subject: 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.

---
 doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/src')

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>
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