Re: pg_dump/load quoting. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_dump/load quoting.
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Msg-id 1354.962307004@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pg_dump/load quoting.  (Bob Parkinson <rwp@biome.ac.uk>)
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Bob Parkinson <rwp@biome.ac.uk> writes:
> dev_templates=# INSERT INTO
> "keywords" ("key","extkey","system","str") VALUES
> (1047676,1047673,'CAB','breeders'' associations');
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "associations"

> Whats happening please? Its quoted correctly, isn't it?

There's nothing wrong with that statement, and it works for me:

regression=# INSERT INTO "keywords" ("key","extkey","system","str") VALUES
regression-# (1047676,1047673,'CAB','breeders'' associations');
ERROR:  Relation 'keywords' does not exist

(I didn't bother to make the table, but the point here is that it gets
past the "parse error" stage.)

Are you using a 7.0 production release of psql?  I seem to recall that
some early beta versions had bugs with doubled quotes, such that what
they sent the backend wasn't what you typed.  You could check this by
starting psql with -e to see what it's sending...

            regards, tom lane

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