Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer
Date
Msg-id 20090417170632.GC10700@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer  (Stephen Cook <sclists@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:01:39PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of standard_conforming_strings, I know it's late, but if
> > we make it a requirement now, a lot of problems just go away.
> > Yes, it's inconvenient, but we're making lots of big changes, so
> > one more shouldn't halt adoption.
> 
> 16 days too late ...

Depends.  If we've found show-stopping bugs, as it appears we may have
done, in not requiring standards_conforming_strings, we can't just
pull a MySQL and ship anyhow.

Cheers,
David.
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