Re: How does postgres handle non literal string values

Actually, we use JDBC Prepared Statements for this type of work. You
put a query with '?' in as placeholders and then add in the values and
the library takes care of the encoding issues. This avoids the double
encoding of (encode X as String, decode string and encode as SQL X on
the line). There was a good article about a framework that did this in
JavaReport about a 18 months ago.

We have gleaned some ideas from that article to create a framework
around using PreparedStatements as the primary interface to the
database. I'd suggest looking at them. They really make your code much
more robust.

Charlie

>"')..."
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>You *will* want to escape the username and password otherwise I'll be able to
>come along and insert any values I like into your database. I can't believe
>the JDBC classes don't provide
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>1. Some way to escape value strings
>2. Some form of placeholders to deal with this
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