On 14 July 2016 at 00:12, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I wonder > whether promoting \; to a recognized and documented behavior would > allow us to get away with converting -c strings to normal parsing > behavior, as was discussed and then rejected on compatibility grounds > not too long ago. People who need to keep the old behavior could do so > by putting in backslashes. >
Just so I'm clear: you're suggesting that because people can modify their code to achieve the old behaviour it's no longer breaking compatibility? That's an odd definition, IMO. Geoff