Re: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4027: backslash escapingnotdisabled inplpgsql

Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > It would be nice to know if we are ever going to set
> > standard_conforming_strings to on.
>  
> My personal bias is to go to the standard behavior as the default at
> some point.  For legacy reasons, I don't know that you would ever want
> to remove the setting; especially since I don't think it adds much
> code if you're going to support the E'...' literals.  The ugliest
> thing about this GUC is that it adds some complications to the flex
> code, but it doesn't seem that bad to me.

Agreed, we would probably never remove standard_conforming_strings.

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