Greg Stark <gsstark@xxxxxxx> writes: > What I'm asking about is, are there going to be user applications that were > working fine in previous versions but suddenly start breaking when this change > is made? Does that affect your decision in whether to backport this to 8.0.x? It's worth noting that the E'...' syntax does not fire if there's any whitespace between the E and the '. If by some chance there are actually people out there using a type "e" with this syntax, they are only in trouble if they wrote it with no space, and they can fix it by adding a space. So I'm not very concerned. Having said that, though, I'm agin back-porting this. We don't back-patch feature additions, and this can hardly be described as a bug fix. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq