Re: Quoting '?' placeholder in Perl's DBD::Pg?

If that doesn't work, I would like to know, to avoid any hidden gotchas. I
suppose it is considered uncommon to need this since most search techniques
do not include punctuation. However, if one were to make extensive use of
regex searches, this issue could occur often and engender much hair pulling.

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"

> From: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:15:28 +0800
> To: Keary Suska <hierophant(at)pcisys(dot)net>, PostgreSQL
> <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: Quoting '?' placeholder in Perl's DBD::Pg?
>
> Hey thanks! I'll try that, sounds promising.
>
> Haven't seen this mentioned in the docs either. So even if it works, would
> probably have to try to get the DBI/DBD people to make an official decision
> on this undocumented feature. I wanted to check first before bothering them
> directly.
>
> I was starting to wonder if I'm weird and the only one to be bothered by
> this issue.
>
> Cheerio,
> Link.
>
> OK so I'm probably still weird. :).
>
> At 02:15 PM 9/27/01 -0600, Keary Suska wrote:
>> I think you are supposed to escape placeholder markers by doubling them: ??
>> should be effectively changed to '?' before passed to PG. I haven't come
>> across this yet, but I think that's the correct (although undocumented)
>> syntax.
>>
>> Keary Suska
>> Esoteritech, Inc.
>> "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
>
>