arrays of varchar and "

From: Tim Kane <timk(at)hotgames(dot)com>
To: PSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: arrays of varchar and "
Date: 2000-02-24 23:54:18
Message-ID: 38B5C4AA.A84809F2@hotgames.com
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I don't recall seeing a response to this, so I'm posting it again.
Sorry if you've seen this twice!
(Assuming my original post made it here anyway).

I have.
create table my_table (
varchar stuff[]; # An array of varchar
};

I want to insert a number of array elements here...

insert into my_table values ('{"value 1", "value 2", "value 3"}');

Fine.

What do I do however, when I want to insert an array element that
contains a " character?
It seems I am unable to escape it it like \" as I normally would for a '
character.

Instead, the parser seems to chop out a portion of the query string...

Known bug?
Is there a workaround?

Thanks Heaps!!

Tim.

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