Re: Text data type doesn't accept newlines?

Not sure, but the syntax is as I described below. Try checking the
perl DBD::Pg documentation. I think that's where I read about it
originally, many moons ago.

> Just checked the Pg docs, don't see a quote function. What is it
part of?
>
>
> > Are you using the "quote" function? You have to use it if you are
to
> > guarantee that the data will be acceptable as "input".
> >
> > $myVar = $myDB -> quote ($myVar)
> >
> >
> >> I'm using the Pg perl interface. But, think my problem was that I
> > had
> >> unescaped single quotes in the string. Added the following to my
> > code to
> >> escape them and it works now:
> >>
> >> $self->{errors} =~ s"'"\\'"g; # escape single quotes
> >
> >
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