Re: Unicode string literals versus the world

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> On 4/11/09, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  wrote:
>>> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS-UESCAPE

> WTF?  Whose feature is this?  What's the use case?

Peter put it in, I think.  It is in the SQL:2008 spec, but that doesn't
change the fact that it's a horribly bad piece of design.
        regards, tom lane