Escaping \ - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Martijn van Dijk
Subject Escaping \
Date
Msg-id 007a01c0b827$10d5b450$0301000a@collective
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Responses Re: Escaping \  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-sql
Hello all,

I've a problem with escaping a \ in a string.

When I enter the query:

SELECT '''\\\''; I get the right result: '\'

But when I try this in a Function:

CREATE FUNCTION sp_tmp() RETURNS varchar(10)
AS '       SELECT ''\\\' AS RESULT'
LANGUAGE 'sql';

I get the following Parse-erros:

psql:tmp1:4: ERROR:  Unterminated quoted string. I don't understand why,
when you leave the SELECT-statement out you get '''\\\'' and that is not
unterminated.

Please help

Greetings

Martijn van Dijk






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