Re: non-standard escapes in string literals

Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> writes:
> BTW, what about embedded NUL characters in text strings? ;-)

There's approximately zero chance of that happening in the foreseeable
future.  Since null-terminated strings are the API for both the parser
and all datatype I/O routines, there'd have to be a lot of code changed
to support this.  To take just one example: strcoll() uses
null-terminated strings, therefore we'd not be able to support
locale-aware text comparisons unless we write our own replacement for
the entire locale library.  (Which we might do someday, but it's not
a trivial task.)

The amount of pain involved seems to far outweigh the gain...

			regards, tom lane