Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > direction PostgreSQL is headed is to drop the nonstandard escapes,
> > unless an extended literal is explicitly used. I've attached a patch
> > which supports this as a configure option, using a
> > --enable-standard-strings switch.
>
> There is already a run-time configuration option
> standard_conforming_strings which does what you seem to have in mind.
Yes, but right now it is read-only. We didn't have time to allow it to
be set to true in this release. I think it has to wait for 8.2.
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