Re: pg_dump and backslash escapes

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I have seen no reply to my suggestion below, so I assume it is the way
> > people want to go for 7.3, 7.4, and 8.0.
> 
> I'm not particularly for it, if that's what you meant, and certainly not
> for hacking up old branches that way.  For one thing, you can't
> retroactively cause servers that are already out there to not spit
> errors for GUC variables they've not heard of; and even if you had such
> a time-travel machine at hand, it's far from clear that it'd be a good
> idea.
> 
> The pg_dump philosophy for cross-version updates is generally that the
> dump should load if you are willing to ignore errors and press on.  Not
> that there will never be errors.  See for example our previous handling
> of the without_oids business, or search_path, or tablespaces.

So, we should SET the variables and allow people to get the errors on
load?  And not supress them from the client and server logs?  Is that
better than suppressing them?

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