From fdae4a93e9df6b9b0f0ef5b0ccff697e4859710f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 11:57:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Remove obsolete advice about doubling backslashes in regex escapes. Standard-conforming literals have been the default for long enough that it no longer seems necessary to go out of our way to tell people to write regex escapes illegibly. --- doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml index 290ba52e7ec..ecca7922ace 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml @@ -4642,16 +4642,6 @@ SELECT foo FROM regexp_split_to_table('the quick brown fox', E'\\s*') AS foo; Non-capturing parentheses do not define subexpressions. - - - Keep in mind that an escape's leading \ will need to be - doubled when entering the pattern as an SQL string constant. For example: - -'123' ~ E'^\\d{3}' true - - - - Regular Expression Character-entry Escapes