Re: Can we remove support for standard_conforming_strings = off yet?

On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 03:09:30PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 01:31:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> So, nobody's actually spoken against this change. I think we should
> >> go forward with it, for the reasons I gave at the top of the thread
> >> and because "if not now, when?". I have little doubt that if there
> >> is anyone still running with standard_conforming_strings = off, they
> >> aren't going to change until forced to. So unless we want to live
> >> with the potential security hazard forever, we're going to have to
> >> make a breaking change sometime.
>
> > +1 from me. All of that is sensible, plus from an extension point of view it's
> > easy to write code that is broken with standard_conforming_strings = off so
> > it's one less thing to worry about.
>
> Pushed.

Great, thanks.

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