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

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