Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Kevin Grittner wrote: > > direction PostgreSQL is headed is to drop the nonstandard escapes, > > unless an extended literal is explicitly used. I've attached a patch > > which supports this as a configure option, using a > > --enable-standard-strings switch. > > There is already a run-time configuration option > standard_conforming_strings which does what you seem to have in mind.
Yes, but right now it is read-only. We didn't have time to allow it to be set to true in this release. I think it has to wait for 8.2. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
