Re: Backslashes in string literals

I think we we will be turning on escape_string_warning in 8.2 and allow
standard_conforming_strings to be optionally turned on in that releaes.
I will keep the patch for us in completing that item.

This has been saved for the 8.2 release:
http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold

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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> I've just been bitten by the "backslash in string literals" issue.  I
> have reviewed the mailing lists and the TODO list.  I see that the
> 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.  It's probably somewhat naive, but
> maybe it can be helpful.
> 
> -Kevin
> 
> 

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