Re: Escape handling in strings

From: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Escape handling in strings
Date: 2005-06-21 04:57:10
Message-ID: 42B79E26.8030305@opencloud.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I have received very few replies to my suggestion that we implement E''
> for escaped strings, so eventually, after a few major releases, we can
> have '' treat backslashes literally like the SQL standard requires.

Just checking: with this plan, a client needs to know what server
version is in use to correctly escape strings, correct? That is, there
is no escape mechanism that works correctly for both "old" and "new"
servers?

-O

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tino Wildenhain 2005-06-21 06:06:42 Re: dealing with file size when archiving databases
Previous Message Bruce Momjian 2005-06-21 04:12:20 Escape handling in strings

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Eugen Nedelcu 2005-06-21 05:42:16 thousands comma numeric formatting in psql
Previous Message Tom Lane 2005-06-21 04:12:39 Re: [PATCHES] default database creation with initdb