Re: Changed behaviour of \' - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Changed behaviour of \'
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Msg-id BANLkTikwcL_Fbmk7AEQvCd5UeYTD+8braw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Changed behaviour of \'  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
List pgsql-bugs
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 16:25, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> > Tom Lane wrote:
>> >> Hmm ... considering that's the first thing in the release notes, I'm
>> >> surprised Martin missed it. =A0Maybe he was looking for something
>> >> mentioning backslashes ... should we add a bit that specifically says
>> >> that backslashes are now no-ops by default?
>>
>> > I added the word "backslash" before escapes in the attached applied
>> > patch.
>>
>> Actually, I had something more like this in mind ...
>
> Great.

I wonder if this is something that's going to hit so many people that
we need to be even more clear than that. Like specifically saying that
changing it back to "off" will make legacy applicatoins work again.
Given that *so* many apps use it... And people don't look at warnings
;)


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