Re: PG 9.0 and standard_conforming_strings

On 01/29/2010 09:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Maybe. We concluded in the April 2009 thread that
> standard_conforming_strings = ON had gotten little or no field testing,
> and I don't see any strong reason to hope that it's gotten much more
> since then. It would be rather surprising if there *aren't* any lurking
> bugs in one piece or another of client-side code. And I don't think
> that we should be so myopic as to consider that problems in drivers and
> so forth are not of concern.
>

Not to contradict any justifiable investigation, but just as a data point:

All of my installations use:

backslash_quote = off # on, off, or safe_encoding
escape_string_warning = off
standard_conforming_strings = on

I have not encountered any problems so far. I use PostgreSQL in about 10
production applications (too tired to count them out :-) ), from psql to
PHP to Perl to Java. I had also assumed this feature was tested and
supported when I enabled it, as it seemed to me to be the only sensible
implementation, and it was consistent with my interpretation of SQL. I
had done some testing before enabling it the first time and was
satisfied with the results.

> I would be all for making this change in an orderly fashion pursuant to
> some agreed-on plan. But cramming it in at the last minute because of
> an essentially marketing-driven change of version name isn't good
> project management, and I'm seriously afraid that doing so would bite
> us in the rear.
>
> An actual plan here might look like "let's flip it before 9.1alpha1
> so we can get some alpha testing cycles on it" ...

Yep.

Cheers,
mark

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Mark Mielke<mark(at)mielke(dot)cc>