Re: Backslashes in string literals

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.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/