On Saturday 11 April 2009 21:50:29 Josh Berkus wrote: > On 4/11/09 11:47 AM, Marko Kreen wrote: > > On 4/11/09, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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 > > WTF? Whose feature is this? What's the use case?
The use case is approximately the same as &#xxxx; in HTML: entering Unicode characters that your screen or keyboard cannot easily produce. It's a desperately needed feature for me. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
