Re: escape string type for upcoming 8.1

Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> What I'm asking about is, are there going to be user applications that were
> working fine in previous versions but suddenly start breaking when this change
> is made? Does that affect your decision in whether to backport this to 8.0.x?

It's worth noting that the E'...' syntax does not fire if there's any
whitespace between the E and the '. If by some chance there are
actually people out there using a type "e" with this syntax, they are
only in trouble if they wrote it with no space, and they can fix it by
adding a space. So I'm not very concerned.

Having said that, though, I'm agin back-porting this. We don't
back-patch feature additions, and this can hardly be described as
a bug fix.

regards, tom lane