Re: Escape handling in strings

On Tuesday June 21 2005 12:49 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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".

I read the webpage, but its still a little muddy.  Can you
clarify/summarize the class of applications, and which dumps
starting with 7.2*, will fail on clusters with this patch unless
they are modified?

Ed