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

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com>
Date: 2008-03-12T13:18:41Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers 
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. standard_conforming_strings should affect _all_ strings.

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