Standards conforming strings

I understand that we have an issue, with Slony-I, concerning the new
"standards_conforming_strings" option in 8.2.

Slony-I uses the "legacy" quoting conventions, which, such as it is,
is fine.

If a particular server is set to standards_conforming_strings=on, this
will presumably lead to certain bits of "breakage."

Is that a GUC variable that may be overridden in the fashion of
datestyles? (e.g. - inside Slony-I, we set DateStyle = USE_ISO_DATES
in those places where it's needful)

Could that variable be escape_backslash? (described in c.h...)

/*
* Support macros for escaping strings. escape_backslash should be TRUE
* if generating a non-standard-conforming string. Prefixing a string
* with ESCAPE_STRING_SYNTAX guarantees it is non-standard-conforming.
* Beware of multiple evaluation of the "ch" argument!
*/

e.g. - we might force non-standard-conforming via a code segment like...

{
int Oldescape_backslash;
Oldescape_backslash = escape_backslash;
escape_backslash = TRUE;
do some stuff...

escape_backslash = Oldescape_backslash;
}
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