Re: Escape handling in strings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oliver Jowett
Subject Re: Escape handling in strings
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Msg-id 42B79E26.8030305@opencloud.com
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In response to Escape handling in strings  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Re: Escape handling in strings
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I have received very few replies to my suggestion that we implement E''
> for escaped strings, so eventually, after a few major releases, we can
> have '' treat backslashes literally like the SQL standard requires.

Just checking: with this plan, a client needs to know what server
version is in use to correctly escape strings, correct? That is, there
is no escape mechanism that works correctly for both "old" and "new"
servers?

-O


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