diff --git a/plugins/omclickhouse/omclickhouse.c b/plugins/omclickhouse/omclickhouse.c
index a46adfc58..f520e4865 100644
--- a/plugins/omclickhouse/omclickhouse.c
+++ b/plugins/omclickhouse/omclickhouse.c
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ BEGINnewActInst
     CODE_STD_STRING_REQUESTnewActInst(1);
     CHKiRet(OMSRsetEntry(*ppOMSR, 0,
                          (uchar *)strdup((pData->tplName == NULL) ? " StdClickHouseFmt" : (char *)pData->tplName),
-                         OMSR_RQD_TPL_OPT_SQL));
+                         OMSR_RQD_TPL_OPT_SQL_BACKSLASH));
 
     if (server != NULL) {
         CHKiRet(computeBaseUrl((const char *)server, pData->port, pData->useHttps, pData));
diff --git a/runtime/action.c b/runtime/action.c
index 83970c996..4cb3ac8d3 100644
--- a/runtime/action.c
+++ b/runtime/action.c
@@ -2712,6 +2712,20 @@ rsRetVal addAction(action_t **ppAction,
                          "the SQL or stdSQL option in your template!\n");
                 ABORT_FINALIZE(RS_RET_RQD_TPLOPT_MISSING);
             }
+            if ((iTplOpts & OMSR_RQD_TPL_OPT_SQL_BACKSLASH) && (pAction->ppTpl[i]->optFormatEscape != SQL_ESCAPE)) {
+                errno = 0;
+                LogError(0, RS_RET_RQD_TPLOPT_MISSING,
+                         "Action disabled. To use this action, you have to specify "
+                         "the SQL option (option.sql=\"on\") in your template!\n");
+                ABORT_FINALIZE(RS_RET_RQD_TPLOPT_MISSING);
+            }
+            if ((iTplOpts & OMSR_RQD_TPL_OPT_SQL_BACKSLASH) &&
+                (pAction->ppTpl[i]->pStrgen != NULL || pAction->ppTpl[i]->bHaveSubtree)) {
+                errno = 0;
+                LogError(0, RS_RET_RQD_TPLOPT_MISSING,
+                         "Action disabled. Backslash-aware SQL escaping requires a string or list template!\n");
+                ABORT_FINALIZE(RS_RET_RQD_TPLOPT_MISSING);
+            }
             tplNoteUse(pAction->ppTpl[i], iTplOpts & OMSR_TPL_AS_DYNAFILE);
         }
 
diff --git a/runtime/objomsr.c b/runtime/objomsr.c
index 4e8ba0207..5df798806 100644
--- a/runtime/objomsr.c
+++ b/runtime/objomsr.c
@@ -142,7 +142,8 @@ int OMSRgetEntry(omodStringRequest_t *pThis, int iEntry, uchar **ppTplName, int
 rsRetVal OMSRgetSupportedTplOpts(unsigned long *pOpts) {
     DEFiRet;
     assert(pOpts != NULL);
-    *pOpts = OMSR_RQD_TPL_OPT_SQL | OMSR_TPL_AS_ARRAY | OMSR_TPL_AS_MSG | OMSR_TPL_AS_JSON | OMSR_TPL_AS_DYNAFILE;
+    *pOpts = OMSR_RQD_TPL_OPT_SQL | OMSR_TPL_AS_ARRAY | OMSR_TPL_AS_MSG | OMSR_TPL_AS_JSON | OMSR_TPL_AS_DYNAFILE |
+             OMSR_RQD_TPL_OPT_SQL_BACKSLASH;
     RETiRet;
 }
 
diff --git a/runtime/objomsr.h b/runtime/objomsr.h
index bc4f565c3..0047bd335 100644
--- a/runtime/objomsr.h
+++ b/runtime/objomsr.h
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@
 #define OMSR_TPL_AS_JSON 8 /* introduced in 6.5.1, 2012-09-02 */
 /** Template is used to render a dynamic file name. */
 #define OMSR_TPL_AS_DYNAFILE 16
-/* next option is 32, 64, ... */
+/** Template must use SQL_ESCAPE, which also escapes backslashes. */
+#define OMSR_RQD_TPL_OPT_SQL_BACKSLASH 32
+/* next option is 64, 128, ... */
 
 struct omodStringRequest_s { /* strings requested by output module for doAction() */
     int iNumEntries; /* number of array entries for data elements below */
diff --git a/runtime/rsconf.c b/runtime/rsconf.c
index 5853837d8..30a225b63 100644
--- a/runtime/rsconf.c
+++ b/runtime/rsconf.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static uchar template_FullJSONFmt[] =
 static uchar template_StdClickHouseFmt[] =
     "\"INSERT INTO rsyslog.SystemEvents (severity, facility, "
     "timestamp, hostname, tag, message) VALUES (%syslogseverity%, %syslogfacility%, "
-    "'%timereported:::date-unixtimestamp%', '%hostname%', '%syslogtag%', '%msg%')\",STDSQL";
+    "'%timereported:::date-unixtimestamp%', '%hostname%', '%syslogtag%', '%msg%')\",SQL";
 static uchar template_StdOmSenderTrack_senderid[] =
     "\"%fromhost-ip%\""; /* default template for omsendertrack "senderid" parameter*/
 static uchar template_PerSourceKey[] = "\"%hostname%\""; /* default template for per-source ratelimiting */