Re: Changed behaviour of \'

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 06:20:23PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Since HISTORY does not mention this, is that an explicit decision to
> finally deprecate the old \' syntax (which would be great, as it makes
> this thing a lot more robust and deterministic, but it might be worth
> mentioning it in HISTORY), or an unintended side effect?

release notes clearly mentions is:
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-1.html
>> - Change the default value of standard_conforming_strings to on (Robert Haas)
>> This removes a long-standing incompatibility with the SQL standard;
>> escape_string_warning has produced warnings about this usage for years. E''
>> strings are the proper way to embed escapes in strings and are unaffected by
>> this change.

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