Re: [GENERAL] Escape handling in strings

FYI

On 06/20/2005 11:12:20 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> [ BCC to general. ]
> 
> I have received very few replies to my suggestion that we implement
> E''
> for escaped strings, so eventually, after a few major releases, we can
> have '' treat backslashes literally like the SQL standard requires.
> 
> I assume this is because most people say, "yea, it is going to be a
> pain,
> and yea, we should probably do it".
> 
> A summary of the plan is at:
> 
> 	http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgescape

To my mind your recommendation for 8.3  8.3 - Have non-'E' strings treat backslashes literally.
would require a major version change, to 9.0 instead of
8.3, as it breaks forward and backward compatability.

But that's just the way I see version numbering working,
not necessarly how postgresql does it.


Karl 
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