On Tuesday 14 April 2009 18:54:33 Tom Lane wrote: > The other proposal that seemed > attractive to me was a decode-like function: > > uescape('foo\00e9bar') > uescape('foo\00e9bar', '\')
This was discussed previously, but rejected with the following argument: There are some other disadvantages for making a function call. You couldn't use that kind of literal in any other place where the parser calls for a string constant: role names, tablespace locations, passwords, copy delimiters, enum values, function body, file names. Some of those appear to be very plausible use cases. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers