"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Yes. For one thing, there would immediately be zero chance of loading
>> view definitions produced by pg_dump into any other DBMS,
> Ironic...we cannot write a standard conforming string out because we are
> concerned other databases will be unable to read it.
Hm? The E'' syntax would specifically *not* be standard conforming.
regards, tom lane