Patch removed at the request of the author. Author will resubmit.
> It has come to our attention that many applications which use libpq
> are vulnerable to code insertion attacks in strings and identifiers
> passed to these applications. We have collected some evidence which
> suggests that this is related to the fact that libpq does not provide
> a function to escape strings and identifiers properly. (Both the
> Oracle and MySQL client libraries include such a function, and the
> vast majority of applications we examined are not vulnerable to code
> insertion attacks because they use this function.)
>
> We therefore suggest that a string escaping function is included in a
> future version of PostgreSQL and libpq. A sample implementation is
> provided below, along with documentation.
>
> --
> Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
> University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/
> RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898
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