| From: | John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Can we remove support for standard_conforming_strings = off yet? |
| Date: | 2026-01-05 10:03:48 |
| Message-ID: | CANWCAZZXQuxy44h5aZbNVjei9nsN_FmHMDnvN4YpyEpiCmmcow@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 12:04 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Personally I would call it a deal-breaker if I thought it'd affect
> more than a very very tiny number of people. But the entire premise
> of this patch is that nobody is using standard_conforming_strings =
> off in production anymore. If that isn't true it's probably a
> mistake to go forward anyway.
FWIW, I spent a few minutes looking, and I only found issues from ~5
years ago about software not working with the setting off. I didn't
see any details on what they were running in the application stack
that required it:
https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/1992
https://github.com/npgsql/npgsql/issues/3333
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John Naylor
Amazon Web Services
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