Speaking of breaking compatibility...standard_conforming_strings

<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I just noticed this comment in
scan.l:</div><divclass="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br /></div><div
class="gmail_default"style=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">/*</div><div
class="gmail_default"style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> * GUC variables.  This is a DIRECT violation of
thewarning given at the</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> * head of
gram.y,ie flex/bison code must not depend on any GUC variables;</div><div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> *as such, changing their values can induce very unintuitive
behavior.</div><divclass="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> * But we shall have to live
withit as a short-term thing until the switch</div><div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> *to SQL-standard string syntax is complete.</div><div
class="gmail_default"style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> */</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div
class="gmail_default"style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">int<span class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>backslash_quote= BACKSLASH_QUOTE_SAFE_ENCODING;</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font
face="arial,helvetica, sans-serif">bool<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>escape_string_warning =
true;</font></div><divclass="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">bool<span class=""
style="white-space:pre"></span>standard_conforming_strings = true;</font></div><div class="gmail_default"
style=""><fontface="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">I'm not
exactlysure what else needs to happen to remove these forbidden GUCs and if we are not prepared to do this now when
willwe ever be...</div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">David
J.</div><divclass="gmail_default" style=""><br /></div></div><div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br/></div><div class="gmail_default"
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