Re: storing windows path strings

2010/1/29 Scott Frankel <leknarf(at)pacbell(dot)net>:
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> Hi all,
> What's the proper way to store directory path strings in a table, especially
> ones with backslashes like windows?
> I'm currently using a prepared statement with bind value.  Do I need to
> pre-parse all user entries to identify any backslash characters before
> passing the string to my insert statement?
> Searches through the documentation turned up references
> to escape_string_warning (boolean) and standard_conforming_strings
> (boolean).  I'm not sure I'll have access to server side config.
> Thanks in advance!
> Scott
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> eg:
> CREATE TABLE foo (
> foo_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
> name VARCHAR(32) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
> dirpath text DEFAULT NULL);
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> INSERT INTO foo (name, dirpath) VALUES ('bar', 'c:\windows\path\to\bar');
> --> WARNING:  nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal

explicetely set ON the standard_conforming_string in the postgresql.conf
*but* take care it don't break your application.
INSERT INTO foo (name, dirpath) VALUES ('bar', 'c:\windows\path\to\bar');

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Cédric Villemain