This code evidently intended to treat backslash as an escape character within double-quoted substrings, but it was sufficiently confused that cases like ..."foo\\"... did not work right: the second backslash managed to quote the double-quote after it, despite being quoted itself. Rewrite to get that right, while preserving the existing behavior outside double-quoted substrings, which is that backslash isn't special except in the combination \". Comparing to Oracle, it seems that their version of to_char() for timestamps allows literal alphanumerics only within double quotes, while non-alphanumerics are allowed outside quotes; backslashes aren't special anywhere; there is no way at all to emit a literal double quote. (Bizarrely, their to_char() for numbers is different; it doesn't allow literal text at all AFAICT.) The fact that they don't treat backslash as special justifies our existing behavior for backslash outside double quotes. I considered making backslash inside double quotes act the same way (ie, special only if before "), which in a green field would be a more consistent behavior. But that would likely break more existing SQL code than what this patch does. Add some test cases illustrating this behavior. (Only the last new case actually changes behavior in this commit.) Little of this behavior was documented, either, so fix that. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3626.1510949486@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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