Re: pg_dump and backslash escapes

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

> Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD wrote:
>
> > I thought the suggested procedure (see migration doc) was to use the 
> > new pg_dump to dump the older db version, so why backpatch ?
> 
> Uh, you can suggest it, but I would guess < 50% do it, and once the old
> database is gone, there is no way to re-do the dump.

I thought the plan was to have one version that supported
standards_conforming_strings but defaulted to false anyways. So this would
only bite people who were jumping over an entire major release.

-- 
greg