Re: inserting/updating a field with the contents of a text file

From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: George Pavlov <gpavlov(at)mynewplace(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: inserting/updating a field with the contents of a text file
Date: 2007-09-25 04:08:24
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--- Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Actually the issue here is that i'm inserting build log snippets, so
> I'm never going to be 100% what will appear. Single quotes were
> definitely the issue the first time I hit this. Are there any other
> characters that are verboten, or just single quotes?

Actually, dollar sign quoting lets you create you own custom quoting character.

for example:

$my_quote$This is where the text goes$my_quote$

in this example (') is equal to ($my_quote$)
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-DOLLAR-QUOTING

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.

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