Re: proposal: unescape_text function

On 11/30/20 8:14 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-11-29 18:36, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>>     I don't really get the point of this function.  There is AFAICT no
>>     function to produce this escaped format, and it's not a recognized
>>     interchange format.  So under what circumstances would one need to
>>     use this?
>>
>>
>> Some corporate data can be in CSV format with escaped unicode
>> characters. Without this function it is not possible to decode these
>> files without external application.
>
> I would like some supporting documentation on this.  So far we only
> have one stackoverflow question, and then this implementation, and
> they are not even the same format.  My worry is that if there is not
> precise specification, then people are going to want to add things in
> the future, and there will be no way to analyze such requests in a
> principled way.
>
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>


Also, should this be an extension? I'm dubious about including such
marginal uses in the core code unless there's a really good case for it.


cheers


andrew