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From: Julien Rouhaud <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[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 18:32:11 +0800
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Hi,

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.

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