Re: How to insert apostrophied names into postgres

From: "Phillip Smith" <phillip(dot)smith(at)weatherbeeta(dot)com(dot)au>
To: <rterry(at)internode(dot)on(dot)net>, "'PostgreSQL Novice'" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to insert apostrophied names into postgres
Date: 2008-02-19 00:20:02
Message-ID: 007f01c8728d$2b76a490$9b0014ac@wbaus090
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> if one passes the name to an sql in code it ends up looking like:
>
> insert into whatevertable (name) values('Peter's');
>
> and bombs.

You need to use the Escape Character, by default a backslash (\). For
example:

INSERT INTO whatevertable(name) VALUES('Peter\'s');

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