</para>
<para>
- This removes a long-standing incompatibility with the SQL
- standard; <link
+ By default, backslashes are now ordinary characters in string literals,
+ not escape characters. This change removes a long-standing
+ incompatibility with the SQL standard. <link
linkend="guc-escape-string-warning"><varname>escape_string_warning</></link>
has produced warnings about this usage for years. <literal>E''</>
strings are the proper way to embed backslash escapes in strings and are