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diff --git a/contrib/string/README b/contrib/string/README index 4b4d10166f..e69de29bb2 100644 --- a/contrib/string/README +++ b/contrib/string/README @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -String io module for postgresql. -Copyright (C) 1999, Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it> - -This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License -either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. - - -These output functions can be used as substitution of the standard text -output functions to get the value of text fields printed in the format -used for C strings. This allows the output of queries or the exported -files to be processed more easily using standard unix filter programs -like perl or awk. - -If you use the standard functions instead you could find a single tuple -splitted into many lines and the tabs embedded in the values could be -confused with those used as field delimters. - -My function translates all non-printing characters into corresponding -esacape sequences as defined by the C syntax. All you need to reconstruct -the exact value in your application is a corresponding unescape function -like the string_input defined in the source code. - -Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it> |