Fix example of de-escaping bytea argument, per Florian Weimer. Also fix example

of escaping bytea return value. Both cases did not handle backslash values properly.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
index 6c1092350eb2717554f473b9680e51db8cefe26f..efeef8060138af7ce03e1393d9be57f6636bb403 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
 
 <programlisting>
     my $arg = shift;
-    $arg =~ s!\\(\d{3})!chr(oct($1))!ge;
+    $arg =~ s!\\(?:\\|(\d{3}))!$1 ? chr(oct($1)) : "\\"!ge;
 </programlisting>
 
   </para>
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
    is how to escape binary data for a return value of type <type>bytea</>:
 
 <programlisting>
-    $retval =~ s!([^ -~])!sprintf("\\%03o",ord($1))!ge;
+    $retval =~ s!(\\|[^ -~])!sprintf("\\%03o",ord($1))!ge;
     return $retval;
 </programlisting>