Typo in Table 8.7 bytea Literal Escaped Octets

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#1PG Bug reporting form
noreply@postgresql.org

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/datatype-binary.html
Description:

In "Table 8.7. bytea Literal Escaped Octets", the backslash character should
be escaped as '\\' or '\134', not '\' or '\\134'.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/datatype-binary.html#DATATYPE-BINARY-SQLESC

#2Tom Lane
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In reply to: PG Bug reporting form (#1)
Re: Typo in Table 8.7 bytea Literal Escaped Octets

PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:

In "Table 8.7. bytea Literal Escaped Octets", the backslash character should
be escaped as '\\' or '\134', not '\' or '\\134'.

Yup, you're right, somebody had a brain fade there.
Thanks for noticing!

regards, tom lane