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From: John Naylor <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Can we remove support for standard_conforming_strings = off yet?
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 17:03:48 +0700
Message-ID: <CANWCAZZXQuxy44h5aZbNVjei9nsN_FmHMDnvN4YpyEpiCmmcow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 12:04 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Personally I would call it a deal-breaker if I thought it'd affect
> more than a very very tiny number of people.  But the entire premise
> of this patch is that nobody is using standard_conforming_strings =
> off in production anymore.  If that isn't true it's probably a
> mistake to go forward anyway.

FWIW, I spent a few minutes looking, and I only found issues from ~5
years ago about software not working with the setting off. I didn't
see any details on what they were running in the application stack
that required it:

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/1992

https://github.com/npgsql/npgsql/issues/3333

-- 
John Naylor
Amazon Web Services

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