Re: standard_conforming_strings

David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-18T16:42:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> I think there are two ways we can do this, seeing that most appear to be
> in favor of doing it in the first place:  Either we just flip the
> default, make a note in the release notes, and see what happens.  Or we
> spend some time now and make, say, a list of driver versions and
> application versions that work with standard_conforming_strings = on,
> and then decide based on that, and also make that list a public resource
> for packagers etc.

Do both. Turn them on, then make a list and inform driver maintainers who need to update. They've got a year, after all.

Best,

David