Re: BUG #17767: psql: tab-completion causes warnings when standard_conforming_strings = off

On 2023-Feb-02, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:

> > Now, I don't foresee that actually happening any time soon (and every
> > report of somebody still using standard_conforming_strings = off
> > pushes out my idea of when it could happen). But perhaps allowing
> > minor annoyances like this to go unfixed would start to light a
> > fire under people to get off of that setting.
>
> That seems like the right decision for to-be-obsolete features. Or,
> we can explicitly mar that variables as OBSOLETE then rip off it a few
> years later.

Hmm, really? We could just remove it for 16; people will still be able
to use the warnings mode in 15 for several years, so if they want to
upgrade to 16+ they will have plenty of time to update their apps.

If we decide to keep it, then ISTM we should find a way to make this tab
completion thingy work silently. But I'd rather we didn't spend any
time on it.

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