Re: standard_conforming_strings

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: "David E.Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-19T21:04:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On sön, 2010-07-18 at 09:42 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> 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.

Here we go then:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Standard_conforming_strings