From c08cfab4077e9d8716491f79d53e749405d1e9b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 17:40:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix documentation example of using psql \x with a SELECT
command, per Simon Riggs. Backpatch to 8.2.X.
---
doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index 88d6c22a910..30d2710fd2e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.175 2006/11/21 17:01:58 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.176 2006/12/05 17:40:55 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
or a single backslash command. Thus you cannot mix
<acronym>SQL</acronym> and <application>psql</application>
meta-commands. To achieve that, you could pipe the string into
- <application>psql</application>, like this: <literal>echo "\x \\
- select * from foo;" | psql</literal>.
+ <application>psql</application>, like this: <literal>echo -e
+ "\\x\nSELECT * FROM foo;" | psql</literal>.
</para>
<para>
If the command string contains multiple SQL commands, they are
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