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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Julien Rouhaud <[email protected]>
Cc: John Naylor <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Can we remove support for standard_conforming_strings = off yet?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:09:30 -0500
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Julien Rouhaud <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 01:31:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So, nobody's actually spoken against this change.  I think we should
>> go forward with it, for the reasons I gave at the top of the thread
>> and because "if not now, when?".  I have little doubt that if there
>> is anyone still running with standard_conforming_strings = off, they
>> aren't going to change until forced to.  So unless we want to live
>> with the potential security hazard forever, we're going to have to
>> make a breaking change sometime.

> +1 from me.  All of that is sensible, plus from an extension point of view it's
> easy to write code that is broken with standard_conforming_strings = off so
> it's one less thing to worry about.

Pushed.

			regards, tom lane

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