On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:41:13 -0500, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Indeed it is, which is one of the reasons to be cautious with changing > it. We've been telling people to move away from \' for a long time, > but actually flipping the switch that will make their apps insecure > is not something to do on the spur of the moment. AFAICT the switch was added in 8.2, and mentioned in the release notes dated 2006-12-05. The documentation for 8.2 says "The default is currently off, causing PostgreSQL to have its historical behavior of treating backslashes as escape characters. The default will change to on in a future release to improve compatibility with the standard." So people have had three years of warning, which I would hardly characterize as "spur of the moment". If you want the old behavior, change the setting to off. I think that a major release point is exactly the right time to do this, doing it at a minor release number is much less reasonable. A question for those opposed to doing it now: how exactly do you propose to warn people that is different than the notice that it will be changed in a future release that has been around for the last three years? -- nw -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
