[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) writes: > Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Unfortunately (perhaps) standards_conforming_strings does not appear >> to be exported, so I'm not sure how to do this otherwise. > > Perhaps your problem is one of spelling? It's > "standard_conforming_strings", and it's certainly a global variable. > > You still haven't explained why you need this, though. There are > no datatype output functions that examine this variable.
Apologies. I was reading too much into the problem report. After some discussion on IRC, I think we've "simplified" things back to what the problem is. Our logtrigger() function is already applying a "non-SCS" policy to quote backslashes. No need to declare anything there, as had been the case with a recent DateStyle issue. With DateStyle, we had to control the style in two places: 1. In logtrigger(), when PostgreSQL is asked to generate the string version of a datestamp. We do so by temporarily setting DateStyle. 2. When loading data, we need to make sure the connection uses a consistent DateStyle. We do so by setting the GUC variable using SET. I was under the misapprehension that we needed something akin to that step 1; apparently we only need worry about step 2. To which Peter's suggestion is entirely sufficient. Sorry about the confusion. -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="ntlug.org" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; http://cbbrowne.com/info/internet.html "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?" -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Felix von Leitner ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq