Re: Pg.pm oddity with apostrophes

I haven't messed to much with it, but I think that if
you use two apostrophes like '', that may work to
escape it.

--- Charles Curley <ccurley(at)trib(dot)com> wrote:
> I am using pg.pm with perl to interface between a
> web server,
> Apache, and postgres. Pg.pm is as follows:
>
>
#-------------------------------------------------------
> #
> # $Id: Pg.pm,v 1.8 1998/09/27 19:12:22 mergl Exp $
> #
> # Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Edmund Mergl
> #
>
#-------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> [PostgreSQL 6.5.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by
> gcc pgcc-2.91.66]
>
>
> The oddity I have hit is that if I try to inset a
> name with an apostrophe
> in it (e.g. O'Neil), pgsql belly-aches and returns
> an error of 7. The
> record is not inserted. If I remove the apostrophe,
> the otherwise identical
> record goes in just fine. I am escaping the
> apostrophe correctly, as far
> as I know. The insert query is as follows:
>
> Insert into contacts VALUES ( 'Mr.', 'Patrick',
> 'O\'Neil', blah, blah... 'http://URL' ); "
>
> I can insert the name from psql with no problems,
> which makes me think it
> is a Pg.pm problem.
>
> --
>
> -- C^2
>
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>
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