Sam Mason <sam@samason.me.uk> writes:
> I've failed to keep up with the discussion so I'm not sure where this
> conversation has got to! Is the consensus for 8.4 to enable SQL2003
> style U&lit escaped literals if and only if standard_conforming_strings
> is set?
That was Peter's proposal, and no one's shot a hole in it yet ...
I think the discussion about whether/how to add a Unicode extension to
E''-style literals is 8.5 material. We are in beta so now is not
the time to add new features, especially ones that weren't even on the
TODO list before.
regards, tom lane