Re: escape string type for upcoming 8.1

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

> > What happens if someone already has a type called "e" ?
>
> That would be the same problem as someone having a type 'b' or 'x'.  It
> would still work, but not for casts like text'str'.  Those letters are
> caught in the lexer before getting into to the parser.

What I'm asking about is, are there going to be user applications that were
working fine in previous versions but suddenly start breaking when this change
is made? Does that affect your decision in whether to backport this to 8.0.x?

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greg