Re: standard_conforming_strings

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-18T17:16:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I think there are two ways we can do this, seeing that most appear to be
>> in favor of doing it in the first place:  Either we just flip the
>> default, make a note in the release notes, and see what happens.  Or we
>> spend some time now and make, say, a list of driver versions and
>> application versions that work with standard_conforming_strings = on,
>> and then decide based on that, and also make that list a public resource
>> for packagers etc.

> Do both. Turn them on, then make a list and inform driver maintainers who need to update. They've got a year, after all.

Yeah.  If we wait for driver authors to do something, we'll never make
this change at all.  The idea of committing it now is to give them a
shove, *and* enough time to respond.

			regards, tom lane