Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:01:39PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
>
> > Speaking of standard_conforming_strings, I know it's late, but if
> > we make it a requirement now, a lot of problems just go away.
> > Yes, it's inconvenient, but we're making lots of big changes, so
> > one more shouldn't halt adoption.
>
> 16 days too late ...

Depends. If we've found show-stopping bugs, as it appears we may have
done, in not requiring standards_conforming_strings, we can't just
pull a MySQL and ship anyhow.

Cheers,
David.
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