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Author Escaped Characters (Quotes, etc...)
operationsengineer1@yahoo.com

2005-05-26, 8:24 pm

hi all,

when i run a pgadmin3 query and select * from a table,
shouldn't the " mark appear like this : \" ?

right now it is appearing as it is entered. i'm using
adodb's qstr() function and i thought it added the
backslashes to the appropriate characters. however,
they don't show up in pgadmin3's query or when i print
the data to a web browser.

is something fishy going on here or am i missing something?

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Tom Lane

2005-05-26, 8:24 pm

< operationsengineer1@
yahoo.com> writes:
> when i run a pgadmin3 query and select * from a table,
> shouldn't the " mark appear like this : \" ?


No, what for?

You have to escape quotes that are going to be put into a string literal
in a SQL command string. But data coming out of the server is not in a
SQL command string and so it doesn't need that layer of quoting.

regards, tom lane

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