| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Subject: | Re: Backslashes in string literals |
| Date: | 2005-12-09 17:26:03 |
| Message-ID: | 200512091726.jB9HQ3517110@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > direction PostgreSQL is headed is to drop the nonstandard escapes,
> > unless an extended literal is explicitly used. I've attached a patch
> > which supports this as a configure option, using a
> > --enable-standard-strings switch.
>
> There is already a run-time configuration option
> standard_conforming_strings which does what you seem to have in mind.
Yes, but right now it is read-only. We didn't have time to allow it to
be set to true in this release. I think it has to wait for 8.2.
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