Tom Lane wrote:
> "Michael Artz" <mlartz@gmail.com> writes:
> > What ig going on behind the scenes? Does it first get converted to text and
> > then on to bytea?
>
> No, the \nnn escape is built into the lexer's syntax for a string
> literal (see backend/parser/scan.l), and only after that does the string
> get fed to bytea's input routine (or any other datatype's either).
> In hindsight this was a horribly bad idea that we'll be paying through
> the nose for, for some time to come :-(. But we're stuck with it for
> the moment.
Should we rethink this for SQL standard strings?
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