Re: Strange parse error??

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Bjørn T Johansen <bjorntj(at)softinn(dot)no>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Strange parse error??
Date: 2001-02-22 23:05:38
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0102221503150.14234-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Bjrn T Johansen wrote:

> I am trying to do a simple update (or at least I thought it was
> simple), but I just keep getting a parse error, saying:
>
> Error executing query
>
> Update "Config" Set "Wave" = 'F:\wav\BTJ.wav',"Answer" = 20,
> "Recordwav" ='F:\wav\',"CalledID" = '12345678' where "Recno" = 1
>
> PostgreSQL error message:
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "12345678"

I believe that it's because postgres treats \ as an escape character
so the 'F:\wav\' was probably treating the closing \' as an escaped
quote inside the string. You'll probably want to double the \
characters.

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