Commit ea964a45 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane

Be more explicit about the meaning of the change in standard_conforming_strings.

parent 64cc297d
...@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ ...@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
This removes a long-standing incompatibility with the SQL By default, backslashes are now ordinary characters in string literals,
standard; <link not escape characters. This change removes a long-standing
incompatibility with the SQL standard. <link
linkend="guc-escape-string-warning"><varname>escape_string_warning</></link> linkend="guc-escape-string-warning"><varname>escape_string_warning</></link>
has produced warnings about this usage for years. <literal>E''</> has produced warnings about this usage for years. <literal>E''</>
strings are the proper way to embed backslash escapes in strings and are strings are the proper way to embed backslash escapes in strings and are
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