Am Mittwoch, 3. August 2005 01:18 schrieb Jeff Davis: > I guess what I'm trying to find out: does this mean that after all this > change to the way strings are handled in the future, PostgreSQL still > won't be standards-compliant for the basic '' string?
It will be more conforming regarding backslashes. There may be other conformance issues, but they are not considered here. > Also, let's say I have apps now in 7.4/8.0, and I want them to be > forward-compatible. Should I make a type called E so that the E'' > notation will work, and then use that for strings? What is the "right" > way to do it? To be standards-conforming, don't use any backslash escapes. If you must use them, use the E'' notation. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
