Re: Unicode string literals versus the world

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unicode string literals versus the world
Date: 2009-04-11 19:07:58
Message-ID: 4427.1239476878@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> On 4/11/09, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS-UESCAPE

> WTF? Whose feature is this? What's the use case?

Peter put it in, I think. It is in the SQL:2008 spec, but that doesn't
change the fact that it's a horribly bad piece of design.

regards, tom lane

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