Re: Escape handling in strings

From: "Ed L(dot)" <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Escape handling in strings
Date: 2005-06-21 22:21:47
Message-ID: 200506211621.47999.pgsql@bluepolka.net
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On Tuesday June 21 2005 12:49 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have received very few replies to my suggestion that we
> implement E'' for escaped strings, so eventually, after a few
> major releases, we can have '' treat backslashes literally
> like the SQL standard requires.
>
> I assume this is because most people say, "yea, it is going to
> be a pain, and yea, we should probably do it".

I read the webpage, but its still a little muddy. Can you
clarify/summarize the class of applications, and which dumps
starting with 7.2*, will fail on clusters with this patch unless
they are modified?

Ed

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