Re: [GENERAL] Problem with apostrophe

From: "Jose' Soares Da Silva" <sferac(at)bo(dot)nettuno(dot)it>
To: eric(at)gateway(dot)ctlno(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Problem with apostrophe
Date: 1998-06-18 09:37:10
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.3.96.980618093524.649A-100000@proxy.bazzanese.com
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 eric(at)gateway(dot)ctlno(dot)com 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.
>
> There must be a work-around, but I can not find any solution.
>
> thank you for your help
You may use doubble apostrophe as in O''Brian to match O'Brian this is
SQL92.
Jose'
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