Re: escape string type for upcoming 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: escape string type for upcoming 8.1
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Msg-id 18124.1123733934@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: escape string type for upcoming 8.1  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: escape string type for upcoming 8.1
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> What I'm asking about is, are there going to be user applications that were
> working fine in previous versions but suddenly start breaking when this change
> is made? Does that affect your decision in whether to backport this to 8.0.x?

It's worth noting that the E'...' syntax does not fire if there's any
whitespace between the E and the '.  If by some chance there are
actually people out there using a type "e" with this syntax, they are
only in trouble if they wrote it with no space, and they can fix it by
adding a space.  So I'm not very concerned.

Having said that, though, I'm agin back-porting this.  We don't
back-patch feature additions, and this can hardly be described as
a bug fix.

            regards, tom lane

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