Re: [PATCHES] Escape handling in strings

Bruce Momjian said:

> OK, the current patch warns about two things, \' with one message, and
> any backslash in a non-E string with a different message. The \'
> message can easily be avoided in clients even in 8.0 by using '', but
> for E'', there is no way to prepare an application before upgrading to
> 8.1 because 8.0 doesn't have E''. (We can add E'' in a subrelease, but
> what percentage of users are going to upgrade to that?) This is why I
> think we need to add a GUC to allow the warning to be turned off. To
> be clear, the GUC is to control the warning, not the query behavior.
>
> We could go with the second warning only in 8.2, but that seems too
> confusing --- we should deal with the escape issue in two stages,
> rather than three.
>

So you don't agree with Tom's suggestion to implement E'' a full cycle
before removing backslash processing in standard strings? Or have I
misunderstood again?

cheers

andrew