Re: proposal: doc: simplify examples of dynamic SQL

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 08:43:21AM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>     It is making a point about nulls and stuff.  There are later queries
>     that use format().
>
> I thought maybe you meant those but your specific mention of "​
> ​
> There are other places later in the docs" confused me since you made changes
> before and after that specific section.
>
> Those examples need to be somewhere and it doesn't seem like a undesireable
> enough setup that major reconstructive surgery is warranted to try and move
> them elsewhere.

Yes, agreed.

> I was actually referring to chapter 9
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/functions-string.html
>
> ​The table definitions of the quote_* function should have a comment about
> their equivalency to format %I and %L

I think it is going to be awkward to mention a much more complex
function, format(), when covering a simle quote function.

> Also, ​in 9.4.1 (format -> type) would be the most obvious place for the
> equivalency of the format %I and %L to quote_*

Yes, added.

Update patch attached and URL udpated with current patch too.

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