Re: pg_dump and backslash escapes

Greg Stark wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD wrote:
> >
> > > I thought the suggested procedure (see migration doc) was to use the
> > > new pg_dump to dump the older db version, so why backpatch ?
> >
> > Uh, you can suggest it, but I would guess < 50% do it, and once the old
> > database is gone, there is no way to re-do the dump.
>
> I thought the plan was to have one version that supported
> standards_conforming_strings but defaulted to false anyways. So this would
> only bite people who were jumping over an entire major release.

Yes, that is true.

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