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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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


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