hubert depesz lubaczewski <dep...@depesz.com> writes: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 06:20:23PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: >> Since HISTORY does not mention this, is that an explicit decision to >> finally deprecate the old \' syntax (which would be great, as it makes >> this thing a lot more robust and deterministic, but it might be worth >> mentioning it in HISTORY), or an unintended side effect?
> release notes clearly mentions is: > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-1.html > - Change the default value of standard_conforming_strings to on (Robert Haas) > This removes a long-standing incompatibility with the SQL standard; > escape_string_warning has produced warnings about this usage for years. E'' > strings are the proper way to embed escapes in strings and are unaffected by > this change. Hmm ... considering that's the first thing in the release notes, I'm surprised Martin missed it. Maybe he was looking for something mentioning backslashes ... should we add a bit that specifically says that backslashes are now no-ops by default? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
