Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, the current patch warns about two things, \' with one message, and
> > any backslash in a non-E string with a different message.
>
> Those are two very different things. \' is easy to get around and
> there's no very good reason not to send '' instead. But avoiding all
> use of \anything is impossible (think \\) so a non-suppressable warning
> for that would be quite unacceptable IMHO. I think it's much too early
> to be throwing a warning for \anything anyway. 8.2 or so, OK, but not
> in this cycle.
I am concerned we are going to generate confusing if we warn about one
use of backslashes in strings but not another. I am thinking we will
just add the infrastructure for E'' in 8.1 (with the warning turned
off), and state we will warn about all backslashes in non-E strings in
8.2, and maybe go for literal strings in 8.3 or 8.4 depending on user
feedback.
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