Re: BUG #4027: backslash escaping not disabled in plpgsql

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > plpgsql does not consider standard_conforming_strings --- it still uses
> > backslash escaping in its function bodies regardless.  Since the
> > language itself is not standardized, I see no particular reason that
> > standard_conforming_strings should govern it.
>
> I think plpgsql should behave either consistently with the rest of PostgreSQL
> or with Oracle, which it is copied from.

Agreed. standard_conforming_strings should affect _all_ strings.

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