Re: standard_conforming_strings

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On sön, 2010-07-18 at 09:42 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>> On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>
>> > I think there are two ways we can do this, seeing that most appear to be
>> > in favor of doing it in the first place:  Either we just flip the
>> > default, make a note in the release notes, and see what happens.  Or we
>> > spend some time now and make, say, a list of driver versions and
>> > application versions that work with standard_conforming_strings = on,
>> > and then decide based on that, and also make that list a public resource
>> > for packagers etc.
>>
>> Do both. Turn them on, then make a list and inform driver maintainers who need to update. They've got a year, after all.
>
> Here we go then:
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Standard_conforming_strings

Looks like a good start. We might want to make an "open items for
9.1" page and, as a first such open item, add a link to this page.

Since it seems we have consensus, I will commit the patch.

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