Re: standard_conforming_strings
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: "David E.Wheeler" <david@kineticode.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: 2010-07-20T00:32:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote: > On sön, 2010-07-18 at 09:42 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: >> 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. > > Here we go then: > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Standard_conforming_strings Looks like a good start. We might want to make an "open items for 9.1" page and, as a first such open item, add a link to this page. Since it seems we have consensus, I will commit the patch. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company