Re: Escape handling in strings

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> A summary of my proposal to add a new E'' string for escape and have
> non-E escapes not handle backslashes specially is at:
>
> http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgescape
>
> Attached is a patch that emits warnings for \ and \', perhaps for 8.1.
> The change to scan.l is the place this is done. The rest of the patch
> is adjustments to prevent our own code from generating warnings. It
> shows a good example of how users would have to change their code.
>
> It passes all regression tests, contrib regression, and initdb runs
> without warning.

Updated patch, with GUC and documentation additions.

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