On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:54:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > It gets worse though: I have seldom seen such a badly designed piece of > syntax as the Unicode string syntax --- see > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS-UESCAPE > > I think we need to give very serious consideration to ripping out that > "feature".
I'd agree it's comically bad syntax; I just had a look in the archives and it was only put in a few months ago: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-10/msg01169.php I can't see much support in the other database engines; searched for Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2 and Firebird. MySQL has it planned for 7.1, so not for a while. http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/task.php?id=3529 -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
