Re: Handling of \ in array data display

Alvaro,

> tarr[1] does not have a \, because it was eaten by the parser (so \y is
> the same as a plain y).  tarr[2] does have a single backslash, which for
> output purposes is shown escaped with another backslash when part of an
> array, but unescaped when not.  I'm not sure if this qualifies as a bug
> or not.

I think it does.   It's not consistent with how text values not in an array
are displayed.   The whole reason I reported it was because of a user
thinking their data wasn't being saved correctly, so it's causing
confusion.

FWIW, I personaly think we should be using the ARRAY[] format for display
anyway, but that would break some backwards compatibility ...

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco