Re: Backslash as ordinary char vs. not; set via a connection/session variable

Ken Johanson wrote:
> Tom and folks,
>
> Will it be possible to set this more standard backslash handling
> behavior -- and possibly similar conformance modes... in a way similar
> to how mysql allows? They allow one to issue commands on the connection
> like:
>
> SET SESSION sql_mode = 'NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES,IGNORE_SPACE,ANSI'

Is this something you cannot do with ALTER ROLE SET foo=bar ?

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