Re: text column constraint, newbie question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Fetter
Subject Re: text column constraint, newbie question
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Msg-id 20090323145155.GC10660@fetter.org
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In response to Re: text column constraint, newbie question  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:07:18AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Stephen Cook <sclists@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You should use pg_query_params() rather than build a SQL statement
> > in your code, to prevent SQL injection attacks. Also, if you are
> > going to read this data back out and show it on a web page you
> > probably should make sure there is no rogue HTML or JavaScript or
> > anything in there with htmlentities() or somesuch.
>
> Are you saying pg_quer_params is MORE effective than
> pg_escape_string at deflecting SQL injection attacks?

Yes.  Much more.

Cheers,
David.
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