Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > OK, the current patch warns about two things, \' with one message, and > > any backslash in a non-E string with a different message. > > Those are two very different things. \' is easy to get around and > there's no very good reason not to send '' instead. But avoiding all > use of \anything is impossible (think \\) so a non-suppressable warning > for that would be quite unacceptable IMHO. I think it's much too early > to be throwing a warning for \anything anyway. 8.2 or so, OK, but not > in this cycle.
I am concerned we are going to generate confusing if we warn about one use of backslashes in strings but not another. I am thinking we will just add the infrastructure for E'' in 8.1 (with the warning turned off), and state we will warn about all backslashes in non-E strings in 8.2, and maybe go for literal strings in 8.3 or 8.4 depending on user feedback. -- 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 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
