Re: Quoting "

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Andy Anderson" <aanderson(at)amherst(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Quoting "
Date: 2008-04-30 15:52:39
Message-ID: dcc563d10804300852r7721a7e3q5cb6bb0cf5b83441@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Andy Anderson <aanderson(at)amherst(dot)edu> wrote:
> In a test I just did, the sequence \" (backslash double-quote) is
> interpreted as just a " inside of the E'...' string constant expression.
> This is great, since PHP's addslashes() sticks them in along with the other
> stuff I really need to quote like ' and \. But I see that \" isn't
> documented in the manual in section 4.1.2.1. I assume this is, in fact,
> standard behavior for Postgres? (Perhaps a comprehensive table might be a
> good idea at this point in the manual.)

Why are you using php's addslashes() function? Is there something
missing from pg_escape_string()??? Or are you doing something else
I'm not thinking of?

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