From ea964a451e51a32b71d004d261874adb1e135066 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 23:44:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Be more explicit about the meaning of the change in
standard_conforming_strings.
---
doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
index 7737381e798..280e0bb1424 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@
</para>
<para>
- This removes a long-standing incompatibility with the SQL
- standard; <link
+ By default, backslashes are now ordinary characters in string literals,
+ 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>
has produced warnings about this usage for years. <literal>E''</>
strings are the proper way to embed backslash escapes in strings and are
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