Re: Escape handling in strings

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.

Just checking: with this plan, a client needs to know what server
version is in use to correctly escape strings, correct? That is, there
is no escape mechanism that works correctly for both "old" and "new"
servers?

-O