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@amherst.edu> 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