Re: Unicode string literals versus the world

"Meredith L. Patterson" <mlp(at)osogato(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I suspect that it's actually impossible to parse such a thing correctly
>> without a full-fledged flex lexer or something of equivalent complexity.

> Is there a reason not to use a full-fledged flex lexer?

The point is that that's a pretty large imposition on client code that
we don't control or maintain, in order to get a feature that could be
gotten in much less dangerous ways that don't impact any code outside
PG.

> I'd be willing to take a crack at such a thing, but I'm working 80-hour
> weeks through the end of June and likely wouldn't be able to put in any
> time on it till then. So I definitely couldn't promise anything for 8.4,
> but if putting it off till 8.5 works, sign me up.

Shall we pass your name on to every package using Postgres, then? This
is *not* about code within Postgres.

regards, tom lane