Re: BUG #4027: backslash escaping not disabled in plpgsql

Tom Lane wrote:
> plpgsql does not consider standard_conforming_strings --- it still uses
> backslash escaping in its function bodies regardless.  Since the
> language itself is not standardized, I see no particular reason that
> standard_conforming_strings should govern it.

I think plpgsql should behave either consistently with the rest of PostgreSQL 
or with Oracle, which it is copied from.

> I believe the reason for 
> not changing it was that it seemed too likely to break existing
> functions, with potentially nasty consequences if they chanced to be
> security definers.

Is this actually true or did we just forget it? :-)