Re: Multiline plpython procedure

Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net> writes:
> Changing this behavior in Python would break backwards compatibility.

Nonsense.  It would not affect the behavior of any script that was
accepted before.

> In particular, the exec() function accepts strings that have already been
> unescaped:

> exec('print """\n\r\n\r\n"""')

So?  That has nothing to do with the treatment of \r and \n outside a
quoted string.

> I suspect this means fixing this problem in plpythonu for 8.1.

plpython does not have a charter to work around Python bugs.  If the
Python community feels that this is correct behavior for Python,
then so be it.

            regards, tom lane