RE: BUG #15632: Correctly escaped strings are mishandled in function

The actual error I get is error: -42 42601 syntax error at or near "SOLD". Because it removed the double single quote.

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From: David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
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To: Kaleb Akalework <kaleb(dot)akalework(at)asg(dot)com>; pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #15632: Correctly escaped strings are mishandled in function

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On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:04 AM PG Bug reporting form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> I'm working on a Java app, and I used prepared statements to create a
> function call to postgressql.

PostgreSQL (one s)...

> Inside my function I take these parameters and build a query like this
> WITH upd AS ( UPDATE topic$_dept SET topic_value = 'SOLD'' WHERE
> topic_value = 'SOLD' RETURNING 1 ) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM upd

I doubt this is a bug but rather likely you are not doing something correctly here. But since you don't show the function its impossible to say what.

> This will throw an error

How hard is it to include the actual error?

David J.