Re: Adding \x escape processing to COPY, psql, backend

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Sergey Ten <sergey(at)sourcelabs(dot)com>, "'Christopher Kings-Lynne'" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, jason(at)sourcelabs(dot)com, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding \x escape processing to COPY, psql, backend
Date: 2005-05-30 19:41:19
Message-ID: 26407.1117482079@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Here is a new version of the three \x hex support patches. I have added
> \x for psql variables, which is the last patch.

> I have IM'ed with Peter and he is now OK with the idea of supporting \x,
> with the underestanding that it doesn't take us any farther away from
> compatibility than we are now.

Peter may be OK with it, but I object strongly to adding this to SQL
literals. This is exactly *not* the direction we want to be going in.

I don't really see the point for COPY and psql, either.

regards, tom lane

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