Here is a summary of the issues with moving to no escapes for non-E
strings:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgescape
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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:49:20 +0200,
> Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:49:20 +0200,
Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
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> > The case that convinced me we need to keep some sort of backslash
> > capability is this: suppose you want to put a string including a tab
> > into your database. Try
Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The only thing I'm not clear on is what exactly is the use case for E''
> > strings. That is, who do you expect to actually use them?
>
> The case that convinced me we need to keep some sort of backslash
> capability is this: suppose you
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> ...or ^V followed by TAB, as per age-old tradition. :-)
Right, I forgot about that one. One can also do other control characters
instead of TAB by pressing CTRL-J and similar.
Well, I just wanted to point out that it's possible. The main problem
Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To insert a tab using readline you can press ESC followed by TAB.
...or ^V followed by TAB, as per age-old tradition. :-)
-tih
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On Tue, 31 May 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> The case that convinced me we need to keep some sort of backslash
> capability is this: suppose you want to put a string including a tab
> into your database. Try to do it with psql:
> t=> insert into foo values ('
> Guess what: you won't get anywhere,
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The only thing I'm not clear on is what exactly is the use case for E''
> strings. That is, who do you expect to actually use them?
The case that convinced me we need to keep some sort of backslash
capability is this: suppose you want to put a string includ
Greg Stark wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > The goal, at some point, is that we would have two types of strings, ''
> > strings and E'' strings. '' strings don't have any special backslash
> > handling for compatibility with with the ANSI spec and all other
> > databases except MySQL (and in
Bruce Momjian writes:
> The goal, at some point, is that we would have two types of strings, ''
> strings and E'' strings. '' strings don't have any special backslash
> handling for compatibility with with the ANSI spec and all other
> databases except MySQL (and in MySQL it is now optional). E
