On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 10:33:19AM -0700, Webb Sprague wrote:
> I haven't messed to much with it, but I think that if
> you use two apostrophes like '', that may work to
> escape it.
Thanks. That did not solve the problem.
>
> --- Charles Curley <ccurley@trib.com> wrote:
> > I am using pg.pm with perl to interface between a
> > web server,
> > Apache, and postgres. Pg.pm is as follows:
> >
> >
> #-------------------------------------------------------
> > #
> > # $Id: Pg.pm,v 1.8 1998/09/27 19:12:22 mergl Exp $
> > #
> > # Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Edmund Mergl
> > #
> >
> #-------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > [PostgreSQL 6.5.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by
> > gcc pgcc-2.91.66]
> >
> >
> > The oddity I have hit is that if I try to inset a
> > name with an apostrophe
> > in it (e.g. O'Neil), pgsql belly-aches and returns
> > an error of 7. The
> > record is not inserted. If I remove the apostrophe,
> > the otherwise identical
> > record goes in just fine. I am escaping the
> > apostrophe correctly, as far
> > as I know. The insert query is as follows:
> >
> > Insert into contacts VALUES ( 'Mr.', 'Patrick',
> > 'O\'Neil', blah, blah... 'http://URL' ); "
> >
> > I can insert the name from psql with no problems,
> > which makes me think it
> > is a Pg.pm problem.
> >
> > --
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>
>
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