| From: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)lan2wan(dot)com> |
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| To: | Amos Hayes <ahayes(at)ingenia(dot)com> |
| Cc: | eric(at)gateway(dot)ctlno(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Problem with apostrophe |
| Date: | 1998-06-17 19:57:47 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSI.3.91.980617155655.29739E-100000@access1.lan2wan.com |
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Amos Hayes wrote:
> > Is there any way of having an apostrophe in a data field?
> > It is a problem because the apostrophe is the same character as the single
> > quote, so the database gets a parser error when a name such as "O'Brian"
> > is entered.
>
> Have you tried doubling up? 'O''Brian'
>
> That is what I have to do in Oracle anyway.
Isn't there an escape character, like the slash?
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy
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