Re: Spurious errors relating to escaped single quotes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Gavin Flower <gavinflower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Spurious errors relating to escaped single quotes
Date: 2011-07-14 19:14:17
Message-ID: 7689.1310670857@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Gavin Flower's message of jue jul 14 07:45:00 -0400 2011:
>> Using pg 9.1beta3, I was found that running a function generated an
>> error relating to escaped single quotes, yet still produced the answer I
>> expected!

> The errors are not spurious. The function doesn't exist now because it
> didn't get created. What happened is that now your inserts are going
> into the parent table, not the partitions as your script intended.

Possibly a more useful answer is "your function appears to be assuming
that standard_conforming_strings is OFF. As of 9.1 it's ON by default".

regards, tom lane

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