From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jonathan Guthrie" <jguthrie(at)brokersys(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: BUG #4027: backslash escaping not disabled in plpgsql |
Date: | 2008-03-12 06:54:09 |
Message-ID: | 200803120754.14367.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> plpgsql does not consider standard_conforming_strings --- it still uses
> backslash escaping in its function bodies regardless. Since the
> language itself is not standardized, I see no particular reason that
> standard_conforming_strings should govern it.
I think plpgsql should behave either consistently with the rest of PostgreSQL
or with Oracle, which it is copied from.
> I believe the reason for
> not changing it was that it seemed too likely to break existing
> functions, with potentially nasty consequences if they chanced to be
> security definers.
Is this actually true or did we just forget it? :-)
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