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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2015-10-30 14:54:17 +0000
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2015-10-30 15:42:20 +0000
commit376d2ec0874144ee64e21ca79362793f116a381c (patch)
tree7fb03f1f3f1304ac42b6f742419384588e23e51a /doc
parent92e6a3d97120ddd68e26d4f5dbdd2ea127a5ff4f (diff)
Lookups: Do not escape percent or underbar in the ${quote_pgsql: } operator. Bug 1706
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt7
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index da4b7ec84..5254fb8a2 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -7537,13 +7537,12 @@ a query is successfully processed. The result of a query may be that no data is
found, but that is still a successful query. In other words, the list of
servers provides a backup facility, not a list of different places to look.
+.new
The &%quote_mysql%&, &%quote_pgsql%&, and &%quote_oracle%& expansion operators
convert newline, tab, carriage return, and backspace to \n, \t, \r, and \b
respectively, and the characters single-quote, double-quote, and backslash
-itself are escaped with backslashes. The &%quote_pgsql%& expansion operator, in
-addition, escapes the percent and underscore characters. This cannot be done
-for MySQL because these escapes are not recognized in contexts where these
-characters are not special.
+itself are escaped with backslashes.
+.wen
.section "Specifying the server in the query" "SECTspeserque"
For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups (but not currently for Oracle and InterBase),
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index beedb59f4..8780780c0 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
+JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer excaped by the
+ ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
+
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