Re: How to insert apostrophied names into postgres - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Phillip Smith
Subject Re: How to insert apostrophied names into postgres
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Msg-id 007f01c8728d$2b76a490$9b0014ac@wbaus090
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In response to How to insert apostrophied names into postgres  (richard terry <rterry@gnumed.net>)
List pgsql-novice
> if one passes the name to an sql in code it ends up looking like:
>
> insert into whatevertable (name) values('Peter's');
>
> and bombs.

You need to use the Escape Character, by default a backslash (\). For
example:

INSERT INTO whatevertable(name) VALUES('Peter\'s');


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