On Tuesday, January 15, 2013, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Do you propose back-patching this?  You could argue that this is a bug in
> > 9.1 and 9.2.   Before that, they generate deprecation warnings, but do
> not
> > give the wrong answer.
>
> I think that backpatching to 9.1 would be reasonable, though I won't
> complain if the fix is only applied to HEAD.
>
> > If it is only to be applied to HEAD, or only to 9.1, 9.2, and HEAD, then
> > this part seems to be unnecessary and I think should be removed (setting
> a
> > value to its default is more likely to cause confusion than remove
> > confusion):
> >
> > SET standard_conforming_strings TO on;
> >
> > and the corresponding reset as well.
>
> Well, it may be unnecessary for people who use the modern default
> standard_conforming_strings. But some people have kept
> standard_conforming_strings=off in recent versions because they have
> old code which depends on this.


OK, I didn't anticipate them doing that in their default (i.e.
postgresql.conf) but of course they might do that.

I've marked it ready for committer.

Thanks,

Jeff

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