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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: 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 15:25:16 -0500
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 03:09:30PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

Great, thanks.

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