Re: debug nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal

From: "Ivan Zolotukhin" <ivan(dot)zolotukhin(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: debug nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal
Date: 2008-03-04 12:52:33
Message-ID: 751e56400803040452r5f996abakf70fee781024c4c4@mail.gmail.com
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Thanks guys, this simple solution worked. Why didn't I guess before?..

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> wrote:
>
> Ivan Zolotukhin wrote:
> > From time to time I face with these well-known warnings in the
> > PostgreSQL log, i.e.
> >
> > Feb 28 04:21:10 db7 postgres[31142]: [2-1] WARNING: nonstandard use
> > of escape in a string literal at character 62
> > Feb 28 04:21:10 db7 postgres[31142]: [2-2] HINT: Use the escape
> > string syntax for escapes, e.g., E'\r\n'.
> >
> > This is fine, everybody knows about that and our PL/PgSQL developers
> > try to make use of escape syntax. But sometimes errors occur anyway
> > (by developers mistakes or something). So the question is: how to
> > debug these annoying messages when pretty big application causes them?
> > Is it possible to have a look what exact queries produced them?
>
> All I can think of is to set
>
> log_statement=all
> log_min_error_statement=WARNING
> log_min_messages=WARNING
>
> which will cause all statements and warnings to be logged.
>
> This might of course generate a lot of output...
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>

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