"Brandon Metcalf" <bmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > t == tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > t> Uh, no, that is certainly *not* the behavior you were getting in 8.1; > t> 8.1's behavior corresponds to both switches off. > OK. I'm confused. With 8.1.5 we never had to do anything special > with backslashes. When we upgraded to 8.3.3, backslashes in our > INSERTs caused problems until we turn _on_ > standard_conforming_strings. Maybe something changed on the client side? 8.1 definitely does not have standard_conforming_strings, but perhaps you had some client-side code that compensated by inserting backslashes. regards, tom lane