doc: remove mention of backslash doubling in strings

Reported-by: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0b03f91a875fb44182f5bed9e1d404ed6d138066.camel@cybertec.at

Author: Laurenz Albe

Backpatch-through: 11

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index 4977b980a6f9b99f09d778e4285776ea2b19e7b0..2c9907ab8bd9ec714621efa775fb1486523a47e9 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ U&'d!0061t!+000061' UESCAPE '!'
     <para>
      While the standard syntax for specifying string constants is usually
      convenient, it can be difficult to understand when the desired string
-     contains many single quotes or backslashes, since each of those must
+     contains many single quotes, since each of those must
      be doubled. To allow more readable queries in such situations,
      <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> provides another way, called
      <quote>dollar quoting</quote>, to write string constants.