Re: The "char" type versus non-ASCII characters

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> I think we could consider char to be a single-byte bytea and use the 
> escape format of bytea for char.  That way there is some precedent and 
> we don't add yet another encoding or escape format.

Do you want to take that as far as changing backslash to print
as '\\' ?

            regards, tom lane