Re: [GENERAL] backslashes in 8.3.3

"Brandon Metcalf" <bmetcalf@nortel.com> writes:
> t == tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us writes:
> t> Uh, no, that is certainly *not* the behavior you were getting in 8.1;
> t> 8.1's behavior corresponds to both switches off.

> OK. I'm confused. With 8.1.5 we never had to do anything special
> with backslashes. When we upgraded to 8.3.3, backslashes in our
> INSERTs caused problems until we turn _on_
> standard_conforming_strings.

Maybe something changed on the client side? 8.1 definitely does not have
standard_conforming_strings, but perhaps you had some client-side
code that compensated by inserting backslashes.

regards, tom lane

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