Re: [PATCHES] Adding \x escape processing to COPY, psql, backend

Patch applied.  Thanks for the COPY \x patch.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > Here is a new version of the three \x hex support patches.  I have added
> > > \x for psql variables, which is the last patch.
> > 
> > > I have IM'ed with Peter and he is now OK with the idea of supporting \x,
> > > with the underestanding that it doesn't take us any farther away from
> > > compatibility than we are now.
> > 
> > Peter may be OK with it, but I object strongly to adding this to SQL
> > literals.  This is exactly *not* the direction we want to be going in.
> > 
> > I don't really see the point for COPY and psql, either.
> 
> We already support \n, \r, \t, and \octal.  I don't see any problem with
> improving it.  It does not take us any closer or farther away from spec
> compliance.
> 
> COPY \x has been requested by several people, and there are actually two
> patches that have been submitted in the past year for this.
> 
> As you know, escapes already provide a useful mechanism on COPY and SQL
> strings, and there is a plan I just posted to deal with standards
> issues, but I don't see \x taking us closer or farther from this.
> 
> Please explain why this takes us in the wrong direction.
> 
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