Re: Forcing backslash to be treated as ordinary string character

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: John Gunther <owner(at)bucksvsbytes(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Forcing backslash to be treated as ordinary string character
Date: 2006-06-16 03:33:17
Message-ID: 12718.1150428797@sss.pgh.pa.us
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John Gunther <owner(at)bucksvsbytes(dot)com> writes:
> Question: Aside from "dollar quoting" (Section 4.1.2.2), is there any
> way NOW to force backslashes in string constants to be treated as
> ORDINARY characters?

Not in current releases. CVS tip (8.2-to-be) does have that ability.
Bear in mind though that enabling this is likely to break every client
app in sight, which is why we are moving very slowly on the point.

regards, tom lane

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