Remove obsolete advice about doubling backslashes in regex escapes.

Standard-conforming literals have been the default for long enough that
it no longer seems necessary to go out of our way to tell people to write
regex escapes illegibly.
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Tom Lane 2015-11-03 11:57:56 -05:00
parent a69b0b2c14
commit fc0b893521

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@ -4656,16 +4656,6 @@ SELECT foo FROM regexp_split_to_table('the quick brown fox', E'\\s*') AS foo;
Non-capturing parentheses do not define subexpressions.
</para>
<note>
<para>
Keep in mind that an escape's leading <literal>\</> will need to be
doubled when entering the pattern as an SQL string constant. For example:
<programlisting>
'123' ~ E'^\\d{3}' <lineannotation>true</lineannotation>
</programlisting>
</para>
</note>
<table id="posix-character-entry-escapes-table">
<title>Regular Expression Character-entry Escapes</title>