Re: Changed behaviour of \'

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: depesz(at)depesz(dot)com, Martin Pitt <mpitt(at)debian(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changed behaviour of \'
Date: 2011-05-11 00:57:05
Message-ID: 201105110057.p4B0v5D18366@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Hmm ... considering that's the first thing in the release notes, I'm
> surprised Martin missed it. Maybe he was looking for something
> mentioning backslashes ... should we add a bit that specifically says
> that backslashes are now no-ops by default?

I added the word "backslash" before escapes in the attached applied
patch.

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