Re: BUG #1350: Backslash ecape charcter violates ISO/ANSI

>We don't hear it very often, perhaps once every four months.  You have
>to double single quotes from user data anyway so most of our interfaces
>have a function that does this and handles backslashes too.
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True, but users also need (or already use) a generic, predictable 
SQL-escape function (mere apostrophe doubling) from their API, that 
needs to work for any database..., but when they try to use it with pg, 
they are blindsided when they realize backslash characters are lost (I 
know of one company that committed to PG and had to back out after they 
eventually realized the backslash issue (porting issue) was too 
burdensome for their large codebase - sad).

Unfortunately many APIs dont have the prepared statement style automatic 
string escaping available; more importantly, prepared statements dont 
work well some highly complex, programaticly generated SQL statements, 
and a generic Sql escape function is far easier to use (in my experience).

>Our TODO list probably has even more items you could cite as reasons
>_not_ to use PostgreSQL.  :-)  When it becomes a key issue for someone I
>suppose they will code a fix for it.
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I may have this key issue - user share.... the other large open source 
DB is adding this compliance-mode at the request of SAP, so this will 
leave postgres as the last one standing... so to speak. ;-) Since 
incorrect SQL escaping has been a key reservation about (both) these DBs 
for users in transition (from commercial DBs), this last mile of 
compliance (of this magnitude) will benefit its benefactor with the 
market share of those awaiting masses :-)